Farmers threshing newly-harvested paddy occupying the Rangpur-Phulbari (Dinajpur) road on Tuesday — FE Photo RANGPUR, May 15: Farmers in different areas in Rangpur district are using metalled roads for threshing and drying paddy and straw in the ongoing Boro harvesting season, making the roads risky for vehicular movement.
A good number of roads in the district including Rangpur-Bougra highway, Rangpur-Phulbari (Dinajpur), Mahiganj-Mirbag road and Rangpur-Sayedpur road are now almost covered with crops and straw as farmers of adjacent villages often bring bundles of harvested paddy and maize on the highway early morning. Very often, straw gets entangled with the running wheels and cause the vehicles to slip from the road. Motorcyclists face difficulties, especially while moving through the thick layers of maize on the road, as surface of the corn is very hard and slippery.
Visiting the Rangpur-Phulbari (Dinajpur) Highway on Tuesday, this correspondent found that the whole road busy with farmers threshing and drying paddy and other crops and also witnessed an accident where a small boy who was pulling a rickshaw van got serious injured as a human hauler ran over him.
Many farmers including Rezaul, Tuhin Miah, Helal told FE they prefer threshing and drying paddy and maize on the road as earth and sand get mixed with fresh paddy and maize and fade the colour of the crops if the crops are threshed on open fields or spaces beside homesteads.
In this situation the common people of the region urged the authority concerned to take necessary steps to stop threshing and drying crops on metalled roads to avert frequent accident.
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