A night of storm and hail in Madarganj upazila of Jamalpur has damaged ripe aman paddy, maize, chilli and other vegetables. Upazila agriculture officer Habibur Rahman told Ittefaq that 30 hectares of aman, 5 hectares of maize and 10 hectares of chilli and vegetables were damaged, and that the losses could grow.
According to the agriculture office and local sources, the storm and hail struck Balijuri, Gunaritala, Char Pakerdaha and Jorkhali unions from Tuesday night, 10 November, until Wednesday dawn. Local farmers say crops on several hundred acres were hit.
Rasel Mia, a farmer in Balijuri union, said he woke to find his ripe paddy flattened into the soil and his chilli plants torn out by the wind. How much chilli and maize was lost on the chars is not yet clear, he said.
In Moslemabad Malipara of Gunaritala union, many farmers lost their maize. Grower Sabuj said the tall maize plants of 40 to 50 farmers like him lie broken on the ground. They had grown the crop with fertiliser, pesticide and diesel bought at high prices.
Delowar, a farmer in Chandpur village, said farmers would not be able to make up for what the sudden storm and hail had cost them in aman, chilli and maize.
Sudden hail during the aman harvest has also been reported from Kurigram. Flattened ripe paddy is hard to cut and sheds grain; the upazila agriculture office will give the final count of the damage. The report is by Ittefaq's Madarganj (Jamalpur) correspondent.
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Source: Ittefaq
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