BSS: Farmers have become very much anxious over their standing crops like potato and irri-boro paddy due to the prevailing mild cold wave in the region. Mustafizur Rahman, additional director of Department of Agriculture Extension, said here the adverse weather is detrimental to potato and seedbed of irri-boro paddy. Potato may be attacked with late bright while the paddy seedlings with cold injuries.
He said the field level DAE staff were given instruction of standing beside the farmers with need-based suggestions so that the farmers can protect their crops from the adverse weather.
The unusual cold weather is disrupting normal life in the city and its adjacent areas for the last couple of days as the difference between maximum and minimum temperature was furthermore reduced here during the last 24 hours.