Prospect of winter vegetables dashed by rainfall
Tuesday, 12 October 2010
A Correspondent
NARSINGDI, Oct 11: The prospect of an winter vegetable production has been dashed due to uninterrupted post-monsoon rainfall in all the six upazilas of the district during the last week. According to the Water Development Board of Narsingdi there was 74.8 milimetre of rainfall in the last week due to uninterrupted rainfall. Unprecedented water logging occured in many places in Narsingdi town areas, whereas in the vegetables growing areas in Shibpur,Raipura, Belabo, Polash, Monohordi and sadar upazilas the damage was colossal.
Gusty wind and heavy rainfall damaged or destroyed the newly emerged saplings of winter vegetables in the seed beds. Farmers who transplanted the saplings in their lands sustained great losses because almost 70 per cent of those land have been inundated by the rising water.
When this correspondent visited Birajnagar and Murgibeer village under Shibpur Upazila some farmers of these villages said sapling of early winter vegetables raised on the seed beds of some 1800 hectare of land have been completely damaged. They said farmers tried to save their saplings by erecting polythine sheds over those but the gusty wind withered away structures
Vegetable growers Shamsul Haque of Kunder para village under Shibpur upazila and Ismail Mridha of Marjal village in Raipura upazila said, they along with many others farmers of the six upazilas used to cultivate winter vegetables like potato, brinjal, tomato, cauliflower, bean, cabbage, borbati, radish, pumpking and many others vegetables. They said though the cultivation of winter vegetables is rather expensive, the fetch good profit.
Ismail said all other farmers who planted vegetables in their fields are now apprehending a huge loss because most of their plants have been submerged and almost 50 percent of those damaged.
NARSINGDI, Oct 11: The prospect of an winter vegetable production has been dashed due to uninterrupted post-monsoon rainfall in all the six upazilas of the district during the last week. According to the Water Development Board of Narsingdi there was 74.8 milimetre of rainfall in the last week due to uninterrupted rainfall. Unprecedented water logging occured in many places in Narsingdi town areas, whereas in the vegetables growing areas in Shibpur,Raipura, Belabo, Polash, Monohordi and sadar upazilas the damage was colossal.
Gusty wind and heavy rainfall damaged or destroyed the newly emerged saplings of winter vegetables in the seed beds. Farmers who transplanted the saplings in their lands sustained great losses because almost 70 per cent of those land have been inundated by the rising water.
When this correspondent visited Birajnagar and Murgibeer village under Shibpur Upazila some farmers of these villages said sapling of early winter vegetables raised on the seed beds of some 1800 hectare of land have been completely damaged. They said farmers tried to save their saplings by erecting polythine sheds over those but the gusty wind withered away structures
Vegetable growers Shamsul Haque of Kunder para village under Shibpur upazila and Ismail Mridha of Marjal village in Raipura upazila said, they along with many others farmers of the six upazilas used to cultivate winter vegetables like potato, brinjal, tomato, cauliflower, bean, cabbage, borbati, radish, pumpking and many others vegetables. They said though the cultivation of winter vegetables is rather expensive, the fetch good profit.
Ismail said all other farmers who planted vegetables in their fields are now apprehending a huge loss because most of their plants have been submerged and almost 50 percent of those damaged.