Dhaka, May 5 -- Ninety seven percent of the Boro paddy in haor areas have been harvested, said the Agriculture Ministry on Sunday.

This year, a total of 4,53,400 hectares of land in seven haor districts -Sylhet, Moulvibazar, Sunamganj, Kishoreganj, Netrakona and Brahmanbaria- were brought under Boro cultivation and so far body paddy on 4.38 lakh hectares land have been harvested while only 33 percent Boro paddy harvested across the country, according to a release of the ministry.

The government is working to make haor crops risk-free and that's why the government has been providing combine harvesters, and reapers to the haor farmers at 70 percent subsidy, so that ripe paddy can be harvested in a short time, said the release.

This year,...