Boro Bounty

The months of April-May herald the Boro harvesting season in the rural Bangladesh. Rice being the mainstay of the country's agrarian economy is the main cereal crop farmers grow in bounty. Thanks to a favorable weather and better crop management and inputs under their disposal growers are joyous to reap a bumper Boro this year. If these pictures, captured in the countryside, are something to go by - farming families are all passing busy days harvesting, thrashing, packing and marketing the freshly reaped paddies. In the hindsight, current market prices of rice are rather bearish that acts as disincentive to the growers of the investment-intensive irrigated-rice. Many pin high hope on government going into rice market with better price offer this year. However, delay in launching of public grain procurement dampens the prospect of farmers getting premium price.

Photo: Anisur Rahman