Deepwater Rice - the Matlab and Chandpur sites used for ufra studies - Comilla District, Bangladesh

Situated in the Meghna floodplain, to the east and north-east of the town of Chandpur. The area is one of the worst for the ufra nematode disease. As with other Meghna floodplain sites, the flood water does not carry any great quantity of silt.

A very aquatic area - the "car park" for boats at Matlab Bazaar	So, we too had to go in a floating "taxi", Zahir Islam used the opportunity to dissect some DWR stems samples
We visited on 5 June 1982 - Lutfur Rahman checking his ufra study field at Chorniloki - the hedge is of dhanchia planted to keep out floating weeds	Zahirul Islam also took stem samples
again, this is an aquatic place all year round	the dwr was flooded to about 50 cm and growing lush
close by the local farmers were harvesting their aus crop	taking the harvest home in boats
Close to the main Comilla-Chandpur road were fields seriously affected by ufra	the light patches are of boro rice, which had been grown with irrigation, damaged by seedling blast disease enhanced by root knot infestation

See the ufra pages

©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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