The major rivers in Faridpur including the Padma River have started to swell, inundating low-lying char areas and causing worry to local farmers. Following the authority’s instruction farmers of the low land areas of Faridpur Sadar have started harvesting half-ripe nuts, paddy and sesame to reduce losses. Also read: Sylhet: Flood-hit city dwellers suffer crisis of gas, power and safe drinking water Ramzan Ali Bhuiyan, a farmer from Paldangi area in sadar upazila, said that he cultivated  nuts on eight bighas of land. But due to the sudden rise in water level of the  Padma River nuts of all lands have been submerged, causing huge losses, he said. Sufia Begum, wife of another farmer, said, “I cultivated nuts on one acre of land spending Tk 30,000 and selling these nuts I planned to run my family. But the sudden flood forced me to harvest the unripe nuts which will have no use other than fodder.” Dikrir Char union parishad chairman Mehedi Hasan said onrush of water from the upstream flooded the char areas in sadar upazila and nut cultivators of the union are the worst sufferers as nut is the major source of their income of the char residents.

About 15,520 hectares of cropland have gone underwater in Kurigram district till Monday morning as the water level in the rivers has started rising again. The water level in Dharla river has increased by 10 cm and in Brahmaputra river by 5 cm in the last 24 hours. Read: Flood in Kurigram getting worse Kurigram Water Development Board Executive Engineer Md Ariful Islam said water level in the Dharla River has risen to 34 cm above the danger level and 23 cm in the Brahmaputra river’s Chilmari Point on Monday morning. However, increased water has reduced erosion. The low-lying areas and sandbars of the district have gone under water. Till Monday, 15,520 hectares of crops have been submerged in the district. Of these, Aman is planted 15,115 hectares, vegetables are 270 hectares and seedbed is 95 hectares.

Thousands of people in Sharsha upazila have been suffering for years as a dysfunctional sluice-gate keeps a vast swathe of land inundated for nine months a year.