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.
FisheriesIn May 2026, fishers in Bhola were finding almost no hilsa in the Meghna and Tetulia rivers after the two-month ban ended, and prices in the town's markets rose sharply. The district fisheries officer and a BFRI hilsa researcher put the shortage down to climate change.
FruitsIn May 2026 Dinajpur growers feared a smaller litchi crop as storms and hail split and dropped fruit weeks before harvest; the DAE said only about one to one and a half hectares were ruined.
CropsRiver levels in Kishoreganj were falling on 7 May 2026 and the sun was out, but sudden showers were hampering haor farmers saving and drying boro paddy; the DAE put submerged paddy at 11,122 hectares up to 4 May.
With rain easing and the sun out after days of cloud, Kishoreganj's rivers are falling and haor farmers are busy saving and drying their paddy.
CropsSunshine returned to Kishoreganj's haors on 5 May 2026 after days of rain and upstream flash floods, and farmers rushed to dry their paddy. The district's agriculture office put the submerged area at about 12,500 hectares, with 49,000 farmers affected.
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'.
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.
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.
Rain paused in Kishoreganj on 3 May, but with river levels mixed and skies overcast, haor farmers still fear losing more boro paddy.
Rain and upstream runoff have submerged another 2,000 hectares of Boro paddy in Kishoreganj, bringing the total affected land to 9,045 hectares.
