On the Jamuna floodplain, the site could be expected to get a goodly amount of silt.

Dry season approach - the River Dhaleswari (a major distributary of the Jamuna)	dry season approach to Bastia - May 1981
Wet season approach - the River Dhaleswari	wet season approach - August? 1981
Marking out for the insecticide trial - 13 May 1981	Just before the floods, village in distance - 1 July 1981 (30 cm of water in the fields)
Spraying the insecticide trial, 14 May 1981	using a knapsack sprayer, note marker ropes
Amzad Hussain preparing for stem sampling - marker poles visible behind - 12 November 1981	Stem sampling just before harvesting
The trial plots	Harvesting under way
taking 1 m² crop cuts from trials plots	Panicles close up
The soil is still wet and mud can get on the harvest	Taking the stooks from the field
Everyone is busy - even ploughing in the, already harvested, deepest fields	Near the village higher ground is already being prepared for sowing a winter crop
The reaped harvest on its way to the village	Threshing in the village
The top straw stacked for cattle fodder	The crop goes to market
Winter Mustard around the edges of the village in January

©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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