Dhaka, March 13 -- Panama disease has spread widely in banana trees in Ishwardi. Hundreds of hectares of trees have been affected by this disease. Thousands of banana trees are dying before the eyes of the farmers. As a result, the farmers are crying because of the pain of breaking their dreams. According to the office of the Ishwardi Upazila Agriculture Officer, banana cultivation has been done on 1840 hectares of padma char in the upazila. Out of this, 1800 hectares of land have been cultivated in Laxmikunda union. Due to profit in banana cultivation in recent years, the farmers of Kamalpur, Dadapur, Lakshmikunda, Kaikunda, Charkurulia, Shantinagar, Degree have cultivated only banana instead of other crops.

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