Fifty-year-old farmer Sudhin Chandra Das cultivated boro paddy on 150 decimals of leased land in Shalla upazila of Sunamganj, part of the country’s haor region, hoping to harvest the crop in late April.

But two spells of excessive rainfall on April 27 and May 2 inundated his fields, destroying the standing boro paddy on three-fourths of his paddy land before he could harvest it.

Sudhin had taken a Tk 50,000 loan from Bangladesh Krishi Bank to cultivate the crop. The disaster left him struggling with debt and uncertainty over repayment.

‘So far, no relief has reached me. I am planning to migrate to another district to work as a labourer as I can’t wait for relief,’ Sudhin told New Age on Wednesday.

Excessive rainfalls between April 26 and May 4 across the haor region before the boro harvest damaged paddy on thousands of hectares and pushed farmers like Sudhin deeper into debt, also raising concerns over rice supply in the days to come.