“Everything is gone!” said the man, as according to officials, a second phase of flooding has damaged crops on 15,000 hectares of land, affecting 73,000 farmers in the district. Now the flood has damaged crops. The crops damaged by floods in the district included Aush and Aman paddy, seedbeds, vegetable fields and banana orchards, according to Hazrat Ali, deputy director at the Department of Agricultural Extension in Faridpur. There is no official account of how much jute was damaged by the floods. The farmers said they could not harvest jute due to high levels of water while flooding for a long period will destroy the jute plants.

Source: bd News24 August 08, 2020 20:15 UTC