“All the land is submerged in the rain water, it’s raining, profit is also raining”
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Ilyas Howladar (36) was picking rotting mung beans in the waterlogging. His home is Bailabuniya village of Maudubi union of Rangabali upazila of Patuakhali. He cultivated mung beans on five acres of land. But all the mung pods rotted as the rains in late April caused waterlogging and submerged the cropland.
Elias said, “We planted mung beans with a loan of two lakh taka from local moneylenders and NGOs. It took another week to bring home the ripe and semi-ripe crops. But as the land was flooded by the rains, 100% of the crops have rotted. Ilyas regretfully said, “Not a single branch could be saved. There is no condition to sell what is there. How to repay the loan, how to pay the installments of the NGO? I will have to leave my village due to this debt.
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According to the sources of Rangabali Agriculture Office, mung dal is cultivated on 17 thousand 717 hectares of land and groundnut on 1 thousand 439 hectares of land. But 8 thousand 338 hectares of mung beans and 302 hectares of groundnuts were destroyed due to rain and waterlogging. Apart from this, 15 other crops including summer vegetables are destroyed.
Patuakhali Meteorological Office Officer-in-Charge Mahabooba Sukhi told Prothom Alo that due to the formation of deep convective clouds in the North Bay of Bengal at the end of last April, 200.4 mm of rain has fallen across the district since April 28.
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Farmer Mohsin Mia (54) of Maudubi Union of Rangabali Upazila cultivated mung beans on 9 acres of land. He has taken an advance payment of one and a half lakh taka for plowing the land, mung bean seeds, fertilizers and pesticides. He was of the opinion that if he could harvest all the crops as the yield was good, he would get a price of Tk 5 to 5.5 lakh. But due to the rain caused by Kalbaisakhi, his crops were submerged in water and all the branches rotted. Not a single dal is fit to eat or sell. Mohsin said in a heavy voice, ‘Now both the capital and the profit have been lost in the monsoon water.’
Shahjahan Pandit (68), a farmer of Bhuyakanda village of Maudubi Union, said that he cultivated mung beans on 10 acres of land with an interest of Tk 1 lakh and a loan of Tk 60,000 from an NGO. But before the crop can be brought home, all the branches have rotted under 3 to 4 feet of water due to rain.
Shahjahan Pandit said that in his village, 300 to 350 farmers have planted mung beans on about 1,000 acres of land. All the crops have rotted in the rain. Darchira river flows by their land, but there is no sluice gate for water drainage in the embankment adjacent to the village. As a result, many farmers are suffering financially due to flooding caused by rainwater every year, he claimed.
Farmer Abdur Razzak Howladar (67) of Badarpur village of District Sadar Upazila was affected by the rains at the end of last April. He said, two-thirds of the crops have been destroyed in the rain. The disastrous rain has come and all the crops have been destroyed.
Abu Awal Ghazi (42), a farmer of the same village, said, “A poor farmer like me gave dal, almonds, sweet potato, and green chillies as a loss of Tk 50,000.” The rain water got stuck in the canal and all the lands were flooded. Ahn chalan sash, profit is also sash.
According to the calculations of the District Agriculture Department, mung dal of 40 thousand 772 hectares of land was destroyed and financial loss of Tk. Apart from this, 333 hectares of boro paddy, 71 hectares of sweet potato, 1 hectare of jute, 112 hectares of sunflowers, 5 hectares of aush, 42 hectares of maize, 29 hectares of sesame, 76 hectares of felan dal, 6 hectares of betel nut, 7 hectares of papa garden, 192 hectares of green chillies, 3 hectares Banana orchards, 5 hectares of soybeans and 74,000 hectares of summer vegetables were inundated, resulting in a financial loss of Rs.
Mohammad Amanul Islam, deputy director of the district agriculture extension department, said, “During the current season, 130,774 hectares of land were planted with various types of crops in the district. But in the natural disaster that happened at the end of last April, the crops of 38 thousand 500 hectares of land were damaged. 30 thousand 662 farmers have suffered losses, which is 23.42 percent of the total farmers.
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