Onions seedlings destroyed by miscreants at night in Goalanda

Miscreants have raided an onion field of a farmer at night and cut down and uprooted the seedlings in Goalanda, Rajbari. The affected farming family claimed that this caused a damage of about 50,000 taka. A general diary (GD) has been filed at the Goalanda Ghat police station against unknown persons in this connection.

On Wednesday (November 11) afternoon, a farmer named Mohiuddin Khan filed the general diary at the police station. According to the GD, onion seedlings were planted about a month and a half ago on two and a half bighas of land belonging to farmer Mohiuddin Khan of Bahadurpur village under ward number 4 of Ujanchar union in the upazila. Sometime on Tuesday (November 10) night, unknown persons uprooted and cut down onion seedlings on about 16 and a half decimals of that land, causing an estimated loss of 50,000 taka.

Around seven o'clock on Wednesday morning, Mohiuddin Khan went to the land and saw the matter of onion seedlings being destroyed. Expressing anger over the incident, local residents said that destroying a farmer's crops in this way is very unfortunate. Crops have to be grown with a lot of hard work on the land, and those who have done this work should be quickly identified and brought under the law.

Upazila Agriculture Officer Syed Raihanul Haidar said that after learning about the crop destruction incident, they inspected the spot. Such an incident is extremely reprehensible. Onion is an important cash crop, and if onion seedlings are destroyed in this way, farmers are severely damaged financially. He added that to prevent the recurrence of such incidents in the future, it is urgent to identify the criminals through investigation and ensure exemplary punishment.

Goalanda Ghat Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Md. Shafikul Islam said that a general diary has been filed at the police station regarding this incident, and necessary legal action will be taken by investigating with the permission of the court.

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