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Three-day rain disrupts life in Thakurgaon

Early vegetable growers worried as newly sown seeds face damage

Our Correspondent, Thakurgaon
Ceaseless rain since Friday noon disrupted normal life in Thakurgaon.
Business and official activities were hampered, schools and colleges saw thin attendance of students while low income group people, especially those who depend on daily earning, badly suffered due to unavailability of work.
The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) in Thakurgaon recorded 84.7 ml rainfall in last 24 hours.
This correspondent in last two days saw day labourers waiting near Thakurgaon intersection where people hire them for work.
Usually 60 to 70 day labourers come here and most of them get call by 9:00am. But these days only 12/15 people were seen passing ideal time in the morning as they failed to
manage work.
"Failing to get work due to bad weather in last three days, I am worried about managing meals for my four-member family," said Nalini Roy, 55, a day labourer from Debadangi village of Thakurgaon Sadar upazila.
A rickshaw puller of Police Lines area under the same upazila said he got fewer passengers in last three days due to the continuous rain.
Hasmat Ali, 45, of Barunagaon came to Govindanagar wholesale market to sell two maunds of brinjal but he was waiting for long due to lack of buyers.
Early winter vegetable growers in the district are facing troubles due to continuous rain during the late monsoon.
"1 sowed some 1,000 seedlings of cauliflower, spending about Tk 10,000.
But it is going to be damaged as 1 could not manage to drain out the water due to ceaseless rain," said Rafiqul Islam, 45, of Barunagoan village.
Mohammad Hossain, 52, of Nargoon village said he cultivated early variety of potato with hope to reap additional profit but the rain dashed his hope as the already sown seeds of potato have started rotting.
Md Aftab Hossain, deputy director of Tahkurgaon DAE, said the rain will be good for most of the crops although it will do a little harm to early vegetable cultivation.
The vegetable growers can reduce damage from rain if they take care of the cultivated crops as per instructions of agricultural officials, he added.