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Tangail farmers enjoy bumper mustard yield, better prices
Whole families, including the youngsters, join in to take home bumper harvests of mustard in Tangail this year propelled by favourable weather conditions. Local markets are also offering farmers higher prices compared to that last year. The photo was taken at Birbasinda in Kalihati upazila last week. Photo: Mirza Shakil
Tangail is in for a bumper mustard yield this year due to favourable weather conditions. Farmers are also very happy being offered better prices in local markets.
They took on cultivating the cash crop just after facing devastating and prolonged floods. Support from the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) was at hand.
Farming After Floods: Battered, they keep on trying
Farmer Abdus Samad, holding the plough, and his wife and son-in-law try to sow peanut seeds again at a char on the Jamuna in Khanurbari of Tangail’s Bhuapur upazila after missing out on three crops due to prolonged floods. Displaced by the erosion of the Jamuna a decade ago, Samad now lives on others’ land.
Farmer Abdus Samad, holding the plough, and his wife and son-in-law try to sow peanut seeds again at a char on the Jamuna in Khanurbari of Tangail’s Bhuapur upazila after missing out on three crops due to prolonged floods. Displaced by the erosion of the Jamuna a decade ago, Samad now lives on others’ land. Photo:Sk Enamul Haq