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DHAKA: Heavy pre-monsoon rainfall and surging upstream flows from India have swollen rivers in northeastern Bangladesh, threatening vast areas with flooding during the crucial summer rice harvest, officials said on Wednesday (Apr 29).Despite relentless rain, strong winds and thunderstorms, farmers have been rushing to their fields, wading through knee-deep water to cut partially submerged crops in a desperate effort to salvage what they can.”We’re trying to save whatever is still standing,” said Mohammad Al Amin, a farmer in Sunamganj, describing the race against rising water levels.The farmers in the haor (wetland) basin are harvesting ripe Boro paddy, the South Asian…

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