Rice farmers in regions Five and Six are facing losses with the start of the rainy season, according to the Agriculture Ministry, which has warned them to take precautions when harvesting as rainfall is expected to continue over the next two weeks. “The rainy season has started and it is the first year after some years that it started within the season,” the ministry said in an advisory on, adding that many farmers in the two regions planted late and were hoping for a late start to the rains.
“The impact of this will result in both qualitative and quantitative losses. It will also result in ‘serious damages’ to the fields during harvesting and the access damns when transporting paddy out,”
