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The farmers cutting crops at Gumai Beel were not happy.
Harvest, they say, has not been good because of scant rain, swarming insects and blast disease affecting yield.
So, smiles have faded with chances of profit for those farming in the land better known as Chittagong’s food silo.
Paddy growth per hectare has lessened according to the Department of Agricultural Extension.
The paddy sown at Gumai Beel ripe faster than paddy in other parts of Chittagong, so the cutting already began a few weeks back.
The blue autumn sky above the vast fields of paddy was dotted with Wren Drongos, Mynas and some pigeons too.
Ducks swam in search of grains on the drying Kumma canal that ran from one side of the marshland to the other.
The farmers of the serene Gumai Beel were spoken to at Kadamtali, Kata Bat-tal, Majher Beel and Nishchintapur – the places that surround it.
Mohammad Ishak of Kadamtali said he planted Aman paddy on six Kani of land. On each Kani, he spent Tk 7,000 starting from sowing to reaping. He assumes he will get Tk 10,000 maximum for paddy in each Kani.
The farmers cutting crops at Gumai Beel were not happy.
Harvest, they say, has not been good because of scant rain, swarming insects and blast disease affecting yield.
So, smiles have faded with chances of profit for those farming in the land better known as Chittagong’s food silo.
Paddy growth per hectare has lessened according to the Department of Agricultural Extension.
The paddy sown at Gumai Beel ripe faster than paddy in other parts of Chittagong, so the cutting already began a few weeks back.
The blue autumn sky above the vast fields of paddy was dotted with Wren Drongos, Mynas and some pigeons too.
Ducks swam in search of grains on the drying Kumma canal that ran from one side of the marshland to the other.
The farmers of the serene Gumai Beel were spoken to at Kadamtali, Kata Bat-tal, Majher Beel and Nishchintapur – the places that surround it.
Mohammad Ishak of Kadamtali said he planted Aman paddy on six Kani of land. On each Kani, he spent Tk 7,000 starting from sowing to reaping. He assumes he will get Tk 10,000 maximum for paddy in each Kani.
