Exploring Farmers’ Insight on Cropping Pattern for Sustainable Crop Production in Char Area of Bangladesh

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The abstract section is rather unclear and hard to follow. 

Lines 292- 329 excessively repeat information from previous sections

Discussions could  be improve by strengthening findings with related literature and highlighting the novelty of the findings. 

Conclusion section  is rather long, ideas from this sections could be integrated in the discussions part. You may address each identified problem and corelate it with main causes and suggested solutions. 

Tables 6-9 could be transfered to Annexes. 

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Reviewer 2 Report

Dear Authors,

The paper deals with intensification of crop production in char areas of Bangladesh. The production increase, minimalization of cropping risk is main target in all over the regions of agriculture. The topic important for the agriculture in flooded areas.

Meanwhile, some corrections would make the article more comprehensible and easy for the readers:

• Naming the river and highlighting the riverbed in the Figure 1 (a) would make more clear view where the river crosses the regions. The Figure 1 has no Reference.
• The name of "Upazilla" would be more understandable as "administrative unit" in pictures, tables and text;
• The literature source of the Table one not provided in a list of Reference;
• Names of the farmers areas are named differently - location (Table2), upazilla, administrative unit. The unifying is required.
• Figure 3 would be more informative if the size of the farmers would be marked by numbers, range, etc. No its not clear what is small, medium large.
• Frequency measuring unit is Hz (hertz) the Figure 3 Y axis could have more clear explanation what do you want to express.
•  Error bars on graphs indicates the error or uncertainty in a reported measurement. Figure 6 represents only one crop area in percent per plant species only. About what kind of uncertainty is discussed?
• The conclusions are not based on the obtained research results, data, figures.

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Reviewer 3 Report

Some observations are as follow:

1. What are the contributions of the proposed work?
2. How this work is different form other existing work?
3. What are the limitations of the proposed work?
4. What are the benefits of this study to the society?
5. Please cite recent references.

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Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

 The content could be better contextualized with respect to previous and present theoretical background and empirical research. 

The manuscript still requires certain proofreading and revision to improve the quality of English. Some paragraphs must be rephrased and authors must carefully proofread to eliminate grammatical errors. 

 

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