Most farmers in Bangladesh depend on subsistence farming with extremely small landholdings. Great parts of Bangladesh are flooded every year and to a large extent agriculture systems have been adapted to this normal flooding. However, besides normal peak floods in July and August and late floods extending in September, early floods from May to June have negative impacts on food crop production potentials. As the country is already deficient in food, large damages of food crops due to floods and droughts may endanger food availability and local stability of supply. Crop diversification is advocated at the policy level to ensure food, nutritional and environmental security. Farmers are interested in alternative small-scale economical activities such as seedling/sapling production which contribute to livelihood diversification and help overcome difficult periods in case the main crops were damaged by natural hazards.