Moynul Haque Mridha, Rajbari

Like every year, this year too, he has planted bitter gourd, cabbage, cauliflower, radish, carrot, sweet pumpkin on about 7 bighas of land. Green pumpkins were also damaged.

This year due to heavy rain for several days, most of the fields were flooded and waterlogged Many vegetable plants have started to die. Initially, there was a loss of around two lakh taka.

Humayan Ahmed is an awardee and recognized as a young agricultural entrepreneur of Rajbari district. His home is South Daulatdia Torap Sheikh Para of Goaland Upazila of Rajbari. It can be seen on the ground, most of the vegetables are eaten under water. As there is water all around, the water cannot find any way out. Because of which his crops are getting ruined. Humayan expressed his dismay while showing his damaged fields.

Humayon Ahmed said, every year I plant early varieties of vegetables. This year too, spending about two lakhs of rupees, I have planted sweet pumpkin, 1 bigha of bitter gourd, 1 bigha of gourd, 1 bigha of cauliflower, 1 bigha of cabbage and 7 bigha of various vegetables in 2 bigha of land. It has cost about 14-15 thousand rupees per bigha land. Everything is submerged in water due to heavy rain. There is no way for the water to come out. About three to four hundred farmers of the area grow vegetables in advance. Farmers would have benefited a lot if they could market these vegetables at the beginning of winter.

Humayon Ahmed said, many sweet pumpkins have been caught in the forest on two bigha land. All the trees are about to die due to accumulation of water. There is no system to get the water out as the surrounding low lands and canals are full of water. Water is where you put water. Because of which all the crops are getting destroyed.

Like Humayon, Yunus Sardar, a farmer from the new neighborhood of Ujanchar Union, planted onion seeds with 6-7 workers every day a week ago. A few days of rain has ruined all the onion crops. Yunus Sardar said, I spend about one and a half lakh rupees to plant onions on three bigha land. Two days after planting it started raining like never before.

All the crops were destroyed by the rains. Even if the water goes down from the field, the onion seeds will rot due to gas from the soil Goalando Agriculture Officer Khokon Uzzaman said, the amount of damage due to rain has not been determined yet.

About 286 hectares or about 2 thousand 145 bighas of land have been affected. Ropa Aman has 98 hectares, Maskalai 78, Vegetables 96, Onion 6, Banana 5 hectares and Mugdal 3 hectares. Vegetables are more affected. Daulatdia and Uzanchar union have the highest number of infected among the upazilas.