BARISHAL, Aug 4: Tidal water triggered by heavy rain inundated most areas in the district including the city.
Farmers are apprehending damages of Aush and Aman paddy cultivation and production.
At present, the entire life in the district has been jeopardised.
In the last 24 hours before 6am on Friday, 216 millimetre (mm) of rainfall was recorded in the Barishal region. The raining was continuing till 2pm.
Already lakh and lakh hectares (ha) of croplands including Aush and Aman seedbeds were submerged.
The heavy rain pushed up the water level in the Kirtonkhola River; at least 40 per city areas were reportedly flooded.
City roads are under water; from 6am to 3pm about 78mm rainfall, was recorded in the city.
The weather office recorded 63mm rainfall from 6am to 9am.
The sky was cloudy till piling this report at 5pm.
Heavy rain is likely again. The Barishjal River port has been given signal No. 1.
This Kharip-2 season, 8,81,000 ha of land have been targeted for Aman cultivation in the Barishal agriculture zone, with rice production target of about 24 lakh metric tons (mt). But farmers said, this Aman rice production target is likely to remain unmet.
The weather office forecast another five-day rain due to monsoon weather flowing in south-west in the Bay of Bengal.
In August 350-390mm rainfall was forecasted in Barishal instead of normal 378mm.
