Families say financial stress and shock triggered fatal collapses amid widespread haor flooding

One evening, not too many evenings ago, when Sammer Ali from Rajshahi's Charghat set off by a buffalo cart, it was almost empty but

It takes 14 million litres of irrigation water to produce six tonnes of Boro rice on one hectare of typical farmland in Bangladesh.

Advancing technology and innovations make the back breaking work of rice planting look like a breeze.