BSS, Rajshahi :
Farmers have become very much anxious over their standing crops like potato and irri-boro paddy due to the prevailing mild cold wave in the region.
Mustafizur Rahman, Additional Director of Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE), said here on Saturday that the adverse weather is detrimental to potato and seedbed of irri-boro paddy. Potato may be attacked with late bright while the paddy seedlings with cold injuries.
He said the field level DAE staff were given instruction of standing beside the farmers with need-based suggestions so that the farmers can protect their crops from the adverse weather.
The unusual cold weather is disrupting normal life in the city and its adjacent areas for the last couple of days as the difference between maximum and minimum temperature was furthermore reduced here during the last 24 hours.
The minimum temperature marked further falls at most places of the district, making lives of low-income group of people miserable.
Normal works including farm activities remained affected and fewer people were found out of their homes due to shivering cold.
Local Met office recorded the season’s ever lowest temperature of 5.8 degrees Celsius this morning against the yesterday’s 6 degrees Celsius making the business of warm clothes more vibrant.
Meanwhile, life of the people living in the slums and chars on the Ganges basin has become worst as they experience more cold biting than that of the mainland.
Md Muniruzzaman, president of Rajshahi Chamber of Commerce and Industries, said the unusual situation has been preventing people from going outside of residences particularly in the morning and the evening.
The suffering of daily wage earners such as day labourers, rickshaw pullers and farm labourers has intensified due to the cold.
The number of patients suffering from cough, fever, asthma and other acute
respiratory tract infections sharply increased at different hospitals including Rajshahi Medical College and Hospital (RMCH) for the last couple ofdays, said Dr Mahbubur Rahman Khan, professor of Department of Medicine in RMCH.
In addition to the sufferings of the people, particularly the poor, cultivation, especially potato, chilli and seedbed of Irri-Boro might be affected if the situation prolongs, said Shamsul Alam, deputy director of DAE.
Meanwhile, the district and upazila administrations, authorities, organizations, public and private bodies and many NGOs have intensified distribution of warm clothes among the distressed cold-hit people.
District Relief and Rehabilitation Officer Aminul Islam told BSS that 38,000 blankets were already allocated for distribution among the cold-stricken people in nine upazilas and 10,000 for city areas.
Farmers have become very much anxious over their standing crops like potato and irri-boro paddy due to the prevailing mild cold wave in the region.
Mustafizur Rahman, Additional Director of Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE), said here on Saturday that the adverse weather is detrimental to potato and seedbed of irri-boro paddy. Potato may be attacked with late bright while the paddy seedlings with cold injuries.
He said the field level DAE staff were given instruction of standing beside the farmers with need-based suggestions so that the farmers can protect their crops from the adverse weather.
The unusual cold weather is disrupting normal life in the city and its adjacent areas for the last couple of days as the difference between maximum and minimum temperature was furthermore reduced here during the last 24 hours.
The minimum temperature marked further falls at most places of the district, making lives of low-income group of people miserable.
Normal works including farm activities remained affected and fewer people were found out of their homes due to shivering cold.
Local Met office recorded the season’s ever lowest temperature of 5.8 degrees Celsius this morning against the yesterday’s 6 degrees Celsius making the business of warm clothes more vibrant.
Meanwhile, life of the people living in the slums and chars on the Ganges basin has become worst as they experience more cold biting than that of the mainland.
Md Muniruzzaman, president of Rajshahi Chamber of Commerce and Industries, said the unusual situation has been preventing people from going outside of residences particularly in the morning and the evening.
The suffering of daily wage earners such as day labourers, rickshaw pullers and farm labourers has intensified due to the cold.
The number of patients suffering from cough, fever, asthma and other acute
respiratory tract infections sharply increased at different hospitals including Rajshahi Medical College and Hospital (RMCH) for the last couple ofdays, said Dr Mahbubur Rahman Khan, professor of Department of Medicine in RMCH.
In addition to the sufferings of the people, particularly the poor, cultivation, especially potato, chilli and seedbed of Irri-Boro might be affected if the situation prolongs, said Shamsul Alam, deputy director of DAE.
Meanwhile, the district and upazila administrations, authorities, organizations, public and private bodies and many NGOs have intensified distribution of warm clothes among the distressed cold-hit people.
District Relief and Rehabilitation Officer Aminul Islam told BSS that 38,000 blankets were already allocated for distribution among the cold-stricken people in nine upazilas and 10,000 for city areas.
