CropsIn the last week of April 2026, days of heavy rain and flash runoff from upstream put ripe boro rice under water across the haors of Sunamganj, where a large share of the 223,511 hectares planted was still waiting to be harvested.
After days of rain and flash floods, sunshine returned to Kishoreganj's haors on 5 May and farmers rushed to dry their paddy.
Satkhira formally began its mango harvest on 5 May under the district administration's mango calendar, and growers expect good prices.
The loss of paddy worth about Tk 200 crore in the haors raises questions about rice prices, food security and policy, a commentary argues.
Pigeon rearing, once a village hobby, is becoming a low-cost source of income and nutrition for small entrepreneurs across Bangladesh.
Rangpur's famous Haribhanga mango is about six weeks from market, and growers and officials expect more than Tk 200 crore of trade if the weather holds.
With two-thirds of the haor paddy under water and harvested grain rotting, Baishakh has turned from a festival month into one of mourning for Habiganj's farmers.
Another 2,500-plus hectares of boro paddy have gone under water in Kishoreganj, taking the damaged area to 12,500 hectares.
Leaders of Rajshahi University's Motihar Hall union picked about 5,000 litchis from the hall tree and shared them among students and staff.
Prawns marinated in coconut and mustard paste and steamed for 20 minutes make a simple, fragrant dish for everyday meals or special occasions.
Rain returned to Kishoreganj overnight on 4 May as rivers kept rising and farmers struggled to dry harvested paddy.
Flood-hit farmers in Netrokona's Khaliajuri watch labourers take their submerged paddy under the haor custom of 'nayanbhaga'.
Heavy rain, flash floods and breached embankments have submerged paddy on nearly half a lakh hectares in seven haor districts.
Because juicing removes most of the fibre in fruit, juice can raise blood sugar quickly, and nutritionists recommend whole fruit instead.
CropsContinuous rain and upstream water submerged more than 1,000 further hectares of boro rice in Kishoreganj on 3 May 2026, taking the district's damaged area to 10,050 hectares and leaving about 36,000 farmers in uncertainty.
Mechanisation has helped bring about 5,000 hectares of fallow land in Moulvibazar under cultivation in five years and turned single-crop fields into year-round farmland.
CookingBeef cooked with satkara, a sour and fragrant citrus from Sylhet, is one of the region's best-known dishes. Here are the ingredients and steps from a recipe Jagonews24 published in May 2026.
The government began buying paddy in Kishoreganj at Tk 36 a kg on 3 May, but farmers whose fields are flooded and grain wet say they cannot meet the warehouse's dryness condition.
In Habiganj's haors, farmers who borrowed to grow boro watch cut paddy rot unsold on the drying yards as rain and rising water swallow more fields.
Disaster management and relief minister Asadul Habib Dulu said the government will give food aid for three months to haor farmers hit by sudden heavy rain and flash floods.
