AgribusinessJuly 2026 floods across about 28 unions of Moulvibazar submerged grazing land and fodder, leaving many cattle sick and their owners unable even to sell them cheaply; the district livestock office was still assessing the losses.
EnvironmentOn 13 July 2026 the Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre warned that short-term flooding could develop or worsen within 24 to 48 hours in low-lying riverside areas of nine north-eastern and northern districts, while floods in the south-eastern hill districts were expected to keep easing.
EnvironmentOn 10 July 2026 the Bangladesh Meteorological Department said the rain falling across the country could continue for at least one more day, after three days of downpours had already brought floods and landslides to the Chattogram region.
CropsIn late June 2026 rising and falling rivers caused erosion at at least 25 points in Gaibandha, and the Department of Agricultural Extension counted crops damaged on about 118 hectares in seven upazilas.
Several days of heavy rain have submerged Boro paddy in most of Sunamganj's haors, leaving farmers who depend on this single crop in despair.
CropsTwo days of continuous rain and hill runoff on 28 and 29 April 2026 put ripe boro paddy under water across Kamalganj, Rajnagar and Sadar upazilas of Moulvibazar, while the DAE said 83 percent of the haor crop but only 17 percent of the non-haor crop had been cut.
Locals say miscreants opened the Kalki sluice gate at night, letting saline water from the Kapotaksha river into about 10,000 bighas of paddy in eight villages of Assasuni.
Ponds are being dug unchecked on triple-crop paddy land across Tarash in Sirajganj, blocking drainage and leaving thousands of bighas permanently under water.
Waterlogging in Kawadighi haor in Moulvibazar has submerged Aman fields and seedbeds, and farmers and officials disagree over whether the pump house can drain it.
Farmers in Chaugachha, Jashore, say a half-kilometre drain would end the waterlogging that has sunk about 4,000 bighas of crops.
Rain and upstream runoff swelled the Teesta and submerged groundnut and other crops on chars in Kurigram's Ulipur and Rajarhat upazilas.
Long-standing waterlogging in the Bhabodah area has left boro cultivation uncertain on nearly 2,000 hectares in Abhaynagar upazila of Jashore.
Continuous rain has waterlogged hundreds of hectares of early-variety bean fields in Muladuli union of Ishwardi, Pabna, threatening heavy losses.
