Irrigation In Bangladesh

Elias Ali has been picking weeds and waste for hours from his paddy field in southeastern Bangladesh, preparing it for irrigation. Every week, he walks half a kilometre to collect the water he needs from private pumps.

Golok Das, a farmer in Assam, is happy with the harvest produced by his main six-hectare farm. But he'd love to sell another four-hectare plot, just half a kilometre away, even though it's equally fertile. Why? It sits on the other side of a barbed-wire fence marking the Bangladesh border, and that means he can't irrigate it.

Elias Ali has been picking weeds and waste for hours from his paddy field in southeastern Bangladesh, preparing it for irrigation. Every week, he walks half a kilometre to collect the water he needs from private pumps.

Golok Das, a farmer in Assam, is happy with the harvest produced by his main six-hectare farm. But he'd love to sell another four-hectare plot, just half a kilometre away, even though it's equally fertile. Why? It sits on the other side of a barbed-wire fence marking the Bangladesh border, and that means he can't irrigate it.