Cap-Farmers are now busy in harvesting paddy amidst good yield in Nilphammari but frustrated over low market price Dhaka TribuneLocal apparel sellers suffer as wellThe joy of Eid-ul-Fitr has been ruined for paddy farmers and their families in the country as they are in debt due to the losses in paddy cultivation. Farmers say they have become hostage of the middle-men who are collecting their paddy and looking to sell later when the price rises. In Nilphamari, farmers secured a bumper harvest cultivating Boro paddy, but with sale price dropping, they failed to cover the costs of investment. Farmer Ashraf Ali of the Bishmuri village in the Sadar upazila harvested 66 maunds of Boro paddy on three bighas (approx. Narsingdi Agricultural Expansion Officer, Deputy Director Shovon Kumar Dhar said: “As the government declared to procure paddy at Tk1026 per maund, the farmers needed three months to process the paddy before sale."

Source: Dhaka Tribune June 03, 2019 19:30 UTC