Heavy rainfall hits standing crops in Rajshahi

RAJSHAHI, Oct 08 (BSS): Standing crops on around 369.52 hectares of land have allegedly been affected by inundation caused by the recent heavy rains in the district.
The latest primary data given by the local office of the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) showed there are transplanted Aman paddy on 83,177 hectares of land, vegetables on 5,449 hectares, black gram on 4,132 hectares and summer onion on 140 hectares in the district at present.
Among those, standing crops on around 369.53 hectare of land were inundated by the rainwater.
Suman Ali (43), a farmer of Darusha village under Paba upazila, has cultivated cauliflower on three bigha of land in two separate places with the hopes of good profit. Ali said his hopes and aspirations were vanished by rain water.
DAE Deputy Director Mozder Hossain said the highest 128 hectares were inundated in Paba upazila followed by 122 hectares in Bagha upazila, 46 hectares in Tanore, 36.52 hectares in Charghat, 30 hectares in Godagari and seven hectares in Mohanpur upazilas.
He, however, said an actual picture of the extent of losses will be available after receding water.
Local office of the Department of Meteorology has recorded 332 millimetres rainfall from 10:00 pm on Wednesday to 6:00 am on Friday. The met office sources said the rainfall has broken the last ten years record in the region.
With the standing crops, many fish farming ponds were overflowed by the rain water affecting the fish farmers badly.
Mridul Islam (48), a farmer of Tanore upazila, said his fish farming ponds on 30 bigha of land were overflowed by the deluge.