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* Soaring temperatures, drought slash Bangladesh tea harvest * Tea pickers stressed in normally mild, rainy region * Heat hits local incomes as tourists stay away By Mosabber Hossain SREEMANGAL, Bangladesh, June 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - P hul Kumari has picked tea in northeastern Bangladesh for three decades, but the 45-year-old says she has never experienced heat and drought like that during this harvest season. "It's too hot and I can't continue working," she sai...

Soaring temperatures, drought slash Bangladesh tea harvest

Jun 7, 2021 KISHOREGANJ DISTRICT, Bangladesh – Standing in his paddy field in northeastern Bangladesh, Shafiqul Islam Talukder holds a handful of empty stalks — all chaff, with no rice grains. Two days of sudden, intensely hot air that swept across the country in April disrupted the rice’s growth, destroying the crop his family was supposed to survive the year on, the 45-year-old farmer from Kishoreganj district explained. “The same thing happened to the adjacent field of mine....

Bangladeshi farmers have suffered losses of $39m according to group, with scientists looking at heat-tolerant varieties as food insecurity grows

  >>Thomson Reuters Foundation  Published: 28 May 2021 08:55 PM BdST Updated: 28 May 2021 08:55 PM BdST Farmer Manik Mia with his rice crops, which were hit by heat stress in April, in Lalmonirhat, northern Bangladesh, May 8, 2021. Thomson Reuters Foundation Hamidul Khan, a farmer in Lalmonirhat, northern Bangladesh, looks over his rice field, which was devastated by heat stress, May 8, 2021. Thomson Reuters Foundation Shafiqul Islam Talukder holds a handful of empty stalks that were rui...

How Bangladeshs Flood-Prone North Is Using Corn to Lift Itself Out of Poverty Corn needs less water and brings in more money than other staple crops in northern Bangladesh. By Mosabber Hossain LALMONIRHAT DISTRICT, Bangladesh, May 3 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) — The people of Shaniazan union, in northern Bangladesh, still remember when a river burst its banks in the early 1990s and engulfed their homes, leaving the land too sandy to grow traditional rice and tobacco crops. Back then, they de...

FEATURE-Corn crop feeds prosperity in Bangladeshs flood-prone north Reuters 1 hr ago * Melting mountain ice leads to more severe, frequent flooding * Farmers have produced a record 1 million tonnes of maize this fiscal year * State backs corn farming to replace thirstier crops, meet demand By Mosabber Hossain LALMONIRHAT DISTRICT, Bangladesh, May 3 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The people of Shaniazan union, in northern Bangladesh, still remember when a river burst its banks in the early 199...

  >> Thomson Reuters Foundation,  Farmers fill up burlap sacks with corn from their fields. Photo: tanvir ahammed The people of Shaniazan union, in northern Bangladesh, still remember when a river burst its banks in the early 1990s and engulfed their homes, leaving the land too sandy to grow traditional rice and tobacco crops. "); } Back then, they desperately struggled to feed their families. Today, the collection of villages in Lalmonirhat district has a bustling marketplace, well-built ...