Shivering cold, dense fog hamper fish, poultry, agri production in N-region
Sunday, 13 December 2009
RAJSHAHI, Dec 12 (BSS): The unprecedented dense fog coupled with shivering clod sweeping over the country's northwestern region for the last couple of days has started making an adverse impact on the agricultural and livestock production.
Besides, the cold coupled with dense fog has been hampering the normal life and vehicular movement in the region.
The sun remained blanketed by cloud and fog until late morning and blowing of chilly wind from the north and northwestern directions caused biting cold increasing cold related diseases among the people especially the elders and children in the region.
Farming activities and production of fish, poultry birds and eggs, goat and various agricultural products including vegetables, betel leaves, potato, tomato and green chilly have been facing an odd situation due to the uneasy climatic condition, said the concerned sources.
As a consequence of the production decline and hazardous farming, retail prices of all seasonal vegetables have become more than double in the markets, said the retailers at Shaheb Bazar of Rajshahi city.
More news from Rangpur adds: normalcy returns in the country's northern region as the weather marked significant improvement with the appearance of the sun from this morning and positive changes in temperature at most points.
Out of the six monitoring points in the northern region, the minimum temperature marked rises at four points, remained unchanged at one point and marked little fall at another during the past 24 hours till this morning, Met Office sources said.
Besides, the cold coupled with dense fog has been hampering the normal life and vehicular movement in the region.
The sun remained blanketed by cloud and fog until late morning and blowing of chilly wind from the north and northwestern directions caused biting cold increasing cold related diseases among the people especially the elders and children in the region.
Farming activities and production of fish, poultry birds and eggs, goat and various agricultural products including vegetables, betel leaves, potato, tomato and green chilly have been facing an odd situation due to the uneasy climatic condition, said the concerned sources.
As a consequence of the production decline and hazardous farming, retail prices of all seasonal vegetables have become more than double in the markets, said the retailers at Shaheb Bazar of Rajshahi city.
More news from Rangpur adds: normalcy returns in the country's northern region as the weather marked significant improvement with the appearance of the sun from this morning and positive changes in temperature at most points.
Out of the six monitoring points in the northern region, the minimum temperature marked rises at four points, remained unchanged at one point and marked little fall at another during the past 24 hours till this morning, Met Office sources said.