Jubo League Leader Harvests Paddy for Two Farmers in Lakshmipur
Jubo League activists in Lakshmipur cut and carried home ripe paddy from at least three acres belonging to two farmers who could not find labourers.
Jubo League activists in Lakshmipur cut and carried home ripe paddy from at least three acres belonging to two farmers who could not find labourers.
Central Krishak League leaders harvested an acre of ripe paddy for a farmer in Kishoreganj's Karimganj upazila to encourage haor farmers.
Blast and fungal disease have struck half-ripe Boro paddy across Gaibandha, leaving many farmers with empty grains and debts.
New Boro rice has started to push down wholesale and mill prices, but Dhaka's retail rice prices have not moved.
Mymensingh district Chhatra League president Md Al Amin and his followers cut a poor farmer's paddy and carried it home on their heads, joined by a woman Chhatra League leader.
Chhatra League activists harvested ripe Boro paddy on about 70 decimals for a Noakhali farmer who could not afford the higher wages of labourers.
In Gobindaganj, Gaibandha, 120 Awami League activists led by the upazila chairman cut and carried home the paddy of a housewife who could not find labourers.
A storm and hail in at least four upazilas of Rajshahi damaged mango, paddy, maize and other crops, though the losses have not yet been measured.
Chhatra League activists in Kishoreganj have begun cutting and carrying home paddy for farmers short of labour, starting with six bighas in Maria.
Fruit bagging shields mangoes from fungus, insects and bad weather without pesticides, and most growers have now adopted it.
A Jashore nurseryman has made a living from the year-round BARI-11 mango, which fruits three times a year and sells at Tk 400 a kg out of season.
The Jubo League has called on its activists to cut, thresh and bring home paddy for helpless farmers struggling to harvest a bumper Boro crop.
Harvesting has begun in Kishoreganj's haor, but farmers who grew BRRI dhan28 have little to smile about after neck blast turned much of their crop to chaff.