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The Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) has advised farmers in the haor region to harvest Boro paddy once it is about 80 percent ripe amid fears of floods and waterlogging.
The advisory was issued on Tuesday afternoon by the BWDB’s Sunamganj office, as harvesting has already begun in some scattered areas of the haor belt, bdnews24.com reports.
It has been raining for several days in different districts and Upazilas of the haor region, affecting crop protection dams and causing waterlogging in some places.
Many farmers have already been harvesting Boro paddy since Pahela Baishakh, marked on Apr 14. However, most of the staple crop has not yet fully ripened.
Farmers are hopeful that the local paddy harvesting festival called “Dawamari” will start in full swing in the haors from the second week of Baishakh, the first month of the Bengali calendar.