date:Sep 15, 2020
to the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE). DAE data showed a total of 260,000 hectares of land have been damaged totally by the more than two-month long flood from June 26 to August 31.
Nearly 40,000 hectares of summer vegetables worth Tk 2.45 billion (2.45 mln) have been destroyed by the flood this year, said DAE.
Golam Maowla, an official at Agri Information Service (AIS), told that farmers in flood affected districts neither could grow Aman rice nor could cultivate winter vegetabl