Farmers fear crop loss as cold spell lingers on Star Report Star Report
As the cold spell lingers on, farmers are in fear of incurring losses because their crops might be affected by the bitter cold.
Now, they are applying different tactics to protect their crops, specially Boro seedlings and potato. I keep my entire seedbeds covered with clothes or polythene at night and uncover these when the sun is visible, said Animesh Barman, a farmer of Chutbathina village in Thakurgoan Sadar upazila.
He has prepared the seedbeds on five decimals of land. We will have to do it until the weather improves. If the cold spell lingers on, it will be difficult for us to protect the seedlings, said Shahidul Islam, another farmer of Panditpara village of the same upazila.