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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 city of Sylhet.
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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.”