DHAKA, 19 September 2021, (TON): As many as 7,900 farmers in the districts have been affected by the floods.

Flash floods in Faridpur have damaged cash crops worth more than Tk10 crore, affecting nearly 100,000 hectares of land.

According to the district’s Agricultural Extension Department (AED) office, over 7,900 farmers have been affected after the loss of 3,945 tons of crops in the floods this year.

The AED said that crops on over 900 hectares of land had been completely ruined. The damaged crops include 621 hectares of Ropa Amon, two hectares of Aaush (Ufsi), nine hectares of local Aaush, 195 hectares of sown Amon paddy, seven hectares of banana orchards, 15 hectares of green chillies and 54 hectares of vegetables.

According to Ripon Prasad Saha, an agriculture officer in the district’s Alfadanga Upazila, vegetables on 10 hectares of land have completely been ruined by floods.

He added that the amount relating to the damage was 10.52% of the total vegetable cultivation in the entire upazila.

Siddique Jamadar, 46, from Tajuddin Matubbar North Channel Union had planted banana trees on 15 acres of land.

The floods submerged his orchard and by the time the water receded, the trees had started dying.

A farmer in the same union, Abdul Majid, 62, had sown Aaush paddy on 33% of his land but nearly 75% percent of the crops were destroyed in the floods.