So far, 85 percent of the haor fields and 30 percent of the non-haor fields have been harvested.

Prices of essentials are rising, and most worryingly, the price of rice is completely uncontrolled in the domestic market. Despite this being peak season and sufficient paddy supply, rice prices rose by Tk 8 to 10 per kg in the last two weeks.

It takes 14 million litres of irrigation water to produce six tonnes of Boro rice on one hectare of typical farmland in Bangladesh.