By dint of its gradually increasing demand and lucrative market price, scores of growers have become happy over the maize farming both in rainy and winter seasons in Rajshahi region, especially Barind tract and Chalan Beel areas.

Around 3,000 boro farmers in Saidpur upazila under Nilphamari district have to count more than double the usual cost for irrigation this season as 37 government-owned deep tube-wells did not get power connection from the Rural Electrification Board (REB).