Harvesting season is still so far away. But an early variety of paddy brings smile to the farmers of Patiya upazila in Chattogram this off season when they suffer a very low or no yield at all, thus making living for them a hard one. The photograph shows farmers carry harvested paddy of the variety home from a farmland at Paikpara village in the upazila on Sunday.     —Rabin Chowdhury