Flood submerges paddy on 22,350 hectares of land

The flash flood coming from the upstream and the hilly regions submerged green and half-ripe paddy on 22,350 hectares of land out of 30,450 hectares in the Dharmapasha upazilla's haor areas in Sylhet district. The sale price of the targeted paddy of 1.60 lakh metric tonnes amounted to taka 194 crore.

Dharmapasha is known as haor region. Seven out of 10 unions depend on Boro paddy. These are Sukhair Rajapur Uttar union, Sukhair Rajapur Dakshin union, Joysree, Chamardani, Madhyanagar, Bangshikunda Dakshin and Bangshikunda Uttar union. All the farmers of the said unions are passing days in hardship.

Farmer Probhakar Tang Panna from Kamargaon village under Chamardani union said, "During this time of the year, the granaries of the farmers were supposed to be filled in with paddy but now those are empty as the paddy fields within the embankment built by Water Development Board under Gurma Project went under water.

Md. Abdul Aowal, Chairman of Joysree union, said that about 500 farmers of Sadipur, Kadipur and Swaraswatipur have been starving. The little quantity of paddy they reaped could not be dried up due to want of fields and sunlight.

POPULATION DENSITY IN MADHYANAGAR UNION

Union	: MADHYANAGAR
Location	: DHARAMPASHA, SUNAMGANJ, SYLHET
Source	: CENSUS - 1994, BBS

Total	: 15,196
Total Male	: 7,948
Total Female	: 7,248
Age: Up to 04 yrs
-- Male	: 1,565
-- Female	: 1,567
-- Total	: 3,132
Age: 05-09 yrs
-- Male	: 1,257
-- Female	: 1,059
-- Total	: 2,316
Age: 10-18 yrs
-- Male	: 979
-- Female	: 859
-- Total	: 1,838
Age: Over 18 yrs
-- Male	: 4,147
-- Female	: 3,763
-- Total	: 7,910