Crops damaged due to flood in Gaibandha

Different crops including T-Aman paddy on a total of 3,429 hectares of land owned by 36,000 farmers of four Upazilas in Gaibandha were damaged due to flood, officials at the Department of Agriculture Extension office in the district have said. Water Development Board sources said water level of Brahmaputra River, one of the major rivers in the country, continued to increase in the last two weeks inundating fresh areas in Sundarganj, Fulchhari, Shaghata and Sadar Upazilas. At one stage, the river crossed its danger level in the district inundating chars and river basin areas of the four Upazilas. As the chars and river basin areas of the Upazilas went under flood water and remained under it over last two weeks, crops particularly T-Aman paddy were damaged, they said. Of the total, some 3,105 hectares of land of T-Aman paddy were damaged, 124 hectares of seeds bed, 100 hectares of Aus variety and 100 hectares of vegetables due to the flood, according to a news agency.