Locals along with farmers help gather this year's Boro harvest in Kotalipara upazila of Gopalganj Dhaka Tribune500 volunteers registered on the first day of the Facebook page launchAfter his recent plan to help local farmers sell their melons online successfully took off, Kotalipara Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) SM Mahfuzur Rahman has come up with yet another brilliant idea, this time to help paddy farmers overcome the shortage of farmhands during this year’s harvest season in Gopalganj. A Facebook page called the “Chashir Hashi Cell” was created on Monday so locals who are equally concerned with the labour shortage during this harvest season can voluntarily sign up to lend a hand. Farmer Yunus Sheikh of Kotalipara, said: “Our Boro paddy has started to ripen. The crops have begun to ripen and farmers have already gathered 10% of this year’s harvest. We have instructed farmers to harvest all their crops as soon as they are ripe.”

Source: Dhaka Tribune April 28, 2020 14:47 UTC