EnvironmentIn June 2026, Mawsynram in India's Meghalaya state recorded 530 millimetres of rain in 24 hours. Experts warned that such upstream rain could quickly raise rivers and haors in north-eastern Bangladesh.
Upstream hill water and continuous rain have pushed the Teesta in Lalmonirhat to within 15 centimetres of the danger level, raising fears of flooding downstream.
Science and Technology Minister Fakir Mahbub Anam told parliament that farm produce and food grains risk taking in tiny amounts of harmful radioactive elements, and that effective steps are being taken to control the risk.
CropsThe government is taking up a Tk 1,429 crore project to dredge 13 rivers in the north-eastern haor region so that farmers' boro rice can be protected from early flash floods. The Bangladesh Water Development Board will carry it out.
Rain and upstream flooding have pushed Atrai river water into Chalan Beel and Halti Beel in Natore at the peak of the Boro harvest, forcing farmers to rush in half-ripe paddy.
Flood-hit farmers in Kishoreganj's haor, with their straw rotted and grazing under water, are selling cattle before Eid because they cannot feed them.
CropsAfter late-April rain and hill runoff drowned boro paddy in the haor wetlands, a 9 May 2026 Jagonews24 column by NCP farmers' wing leader Sayed Uzzal called for embankment repair, direct paddy purchase, easier credit, crop insurance and an integrated, farmer-centred policy.
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.
The loss of paddy worth about Tk 200 crore in the haors raises questions about rice prices, food security and policy, a commentary argues.
Flood-hit farmers in Netrokona's Khaliajuri watch labourers take their submerged paddy under the haor custom of 'nayanbhaga'.
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.
A 60-year-old Austagram farmer who had borrowed about Tk 1.5 lakh to grow boro paddy died after seeing his ripe crop under water.
