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TWO spells of flood in a span of less than two months has taken heavy toll on farmers in Kurigram.
   Nearly 28 per cent of crops and vegetables have been damaged in the second spell of flood that hit nine upazilas of the district in first September. The deluge first hit the district in mid July.
   Official statistics shows that the flood was affected one lakh and 57,427 farmers’ families destroying 27.91 per cent of crops and vegetables.
   Sixty-four unions out of 74 of the district have been affected in the second spell of flood this year. Huge amount of transplanted aman seedlings, transplanted aman paddy, vegetables and other crops have been damaged.
   According to Kurigram Department of Agriculture Extension, T-aman paddy on 6,001 hectares, vegetables on 250 hectares and other crops on 50 hectares have been damaged in the district headquarters.
   In Ulipur upazila, T-aman seedlings on 29 hectares ,T-aman paddy on 5004 hectares, vegetables on 26 hectares and other crops on 5 hectares have been damaged.
   T-aman seedlings on 5 hectares, T-aman paddy on 5,697 hectares and other crops on 30 hectares have been damaged in Chilmari upazila.
   In Roumari upazila, T-aman seedlings on 125 hectares T-Aman paddy on 6,284 hectares, vegetables on 45 hectares have been damaged.
   T-aman seedlings on 15 hectares T-aman paddy on 2,318 hectares and other crops on 5 hectares were damaged in Rajibpur upazila.
   In Bhurungamari upazila, T-Aman hectares T-aman paddy on 486 hectares and other crops on 19 hectares have been damaged.
   T-aman paddy on 5,490 hectares vegetables on 40 hectares and other crops on 36 hectares have been damaged in Nageshwari upazila.
   In Phulbari upazila, T-aman paddy on 1,280 hectares, vegetables on 20 hectares and other crops on 10 hectares have been damaged.
   T-aman paddy on 419 hectares, vegetables on 9 hectares have been damaged in Rajarhat upazila.
   The most affected upazila is Roumari where 76.15 per cent of crops and vegetables have been damaged. The least affected upazila is Bhurunga-
   mari where only 3.26 per cent crops and vegetables have been damaged.
   Bablu Mia, a 44-year-old farmer of Baliganj union under Nageshwari upazila, told New Age that he had cultivated aman paddy on his 14 bighas of land. The first spell of flood damaged all the crops. After the flood he struggled to manage aman seedlings amid crisis and could only manage for 8 bighas of land while the rest remained fallow. But the second-spell flood has damaged the crops again.
   Now it seems to be unrecoverable, he said.
   DAE officials, however, said the farmers were being given logistic support to overcome the loss.