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. My dream crop is finished,” he said with tears in his eyes. “I can’t think of how to support the family for a whole year. I invested my savings and planted five hectares of high-yielding rice. Now it’s all over.”
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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 ruined after two days of extreme hot, dry air in April, in Kishoreganj district, northeast Bangladesh, May 4, 2021. Thomson Reuters Foundation Rice crops destroyed by heat stress in Ballabhpur village, Bangladesh, April 25, 2021. Thomson Reuters Foundation
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