Due to lack of fresh water in the dry season, most of the agricultural land in the coastal zone of Bangladesh remain single cropped with a low yield potential. This study aimed to develop a double rice cropping system with an aus-aman crop. Thus experiment was carried out in 2009 with the hypothesis that (i) late transplanting might secure good aus establishment compared to dry seeded aus and (ii) high yield of late planted aman can be maintained using a suitable photoperiod sensitive variety (BRRI dhan46) than photoperiod insensitive (BRRI dhan49) one. Treatments were two aus establishment methods (M1 = dry seeded, M2 = transplanted), two aus seeding dates (D1 = 30 April, D2 = 11 May), and two aman varieties (V1 = sensitive and V2 = insensitive to photoperiod), two seeding dates (D1 = 5 August, D2 = 10 August) established 10 days after aus harvest. Dry seeded aus had similar yield for both late April and early May sowings (4.7 t ha-1), but yield of late sown and transplanted aus had lower yield (3.5 t ha-1) due to submergence between flowering and the start of grain filling, while yield of late sown dry seeded aus was not affected as the crop was more advanced at the time of flooding. For aman rice, BRRI dhan49 had a higher yield (4.5 – 4.8 t ha-1) than BRRI dhan46 (4.2 – 4.4 t ha-1) for both establishment dates. Thus, establishment of a short duration aus rice at the end of April, followed by a medium duration photoperiod insensitive aman variety, it is possible to produce 8 – 9 t ha-1 yr-1 in moderately saline coastal zones.