Rain, desperately sought by Bangladeshi farmers to plant their rice fields, has brought some relief to the mostly agrarian country.

Weather officials say Bangladesh will experience moderate to heavy showers over the next weeks bringing an annual monsoon, though delayed.

Monsoon showers are the keys to farming, navigation, fishing and environment in Bangladesh, as in neighbouring India and Myanmar.

Two months after the monsoon had officially started in the middle of June, much of the country is still dry with farmers waiting to plough their land and plant Amman rice, the prime crop of the season.