Deepwater Rice - Brian Taylor

The deepwater rice farmer's year - 9 - winter crops

Traditionally in deepwater rice areas winter crops were either short duration pulses or vegetables planted so as to draw on the residual moisture left in the soil after the DWR harvest or ...
In this photograph taken just off the main Manikganj-Aricha road, not only is a damp field seen ready for the winter crop but a tube well is under the roof close to the road.	*Where a permanent river was close by methods such as the "dohn" (swinging bucket shown here) were used to lift water into the fields. Seen here in Pabna District, 5 February 1983.*
Given sufficient residual moisture or irrigation a wide range of temperate vegetables and pulses grow well in the clear sunlight of the Bangladesh winter. This selection was photographed in early February 1983 just south-west of Manikganj town, Dhaka District.
Pulses - ?pigeon pea	Pulses

Potatoes and foreground "til"?	Pulses

Potatoes...	*which crop very well but are regarded purely for use as a vegetable (aloo) side dish, rice dominating all Bengali meals.*

Pulses, groundnuts and wheat...	*Winter wheat, used for the moist "paratha", not the dry chapatti of northern India*

In the domestic garden vegetables such as broccoli, lettuce, tomato and radish can be excellent	Maize is capable of terrific growth with multiple cobs

The winter also brings storks..	and enormous hailstones - capable of causing severe damage and even loss of life

©2000 - Brian Taylor CBiol FIBiol FRES
11, Grazingfield, Wilford, Nottingham, NG11 7FN, U.K.
Visiting Academic in the Department of Life Science, University of Nottingham

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