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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 said, as she took a break for water at the tea estate where she labours in Sreemangal, south of the cit...

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. My dream crop is finished,” he said with tears in his eyes. “I can’t think of how to support ...

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 ruined after two days of extreme hot, dry air in April, in Kishoreganj district, northeast Bangladesh, ...