India - October rainfall hit crops on 10.2 lakh hectares

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Unseasonal rains in October affected 10.2 lakh hectares of farmland in Karnataka, damaging standing crops and causing more pain to farmers already reeling from drought and monsoon floods. Karnataka, in fact, is the worst hit, on the count of losing standing crops, among nine states which received high unseasonal downpour in the said month, according to data from the ministry of home affairs and the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF).
Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Odisha, Chhattisgarh and Kerala are the other states. In formal terms, the ministry attributed the crop damage to “prolonged rains in October owing to the delayed withdrawal of southwest monsoon”. Eleven states received “large excess” rainfall this year, while seven recorded “excess rainfall”. The term “large excess” is used when the showers are 60% more than normal, whereas “excess” refers to 20% and 59% more than normal. Karnataka received 268.8mm of rain in October, 105% more than the forecasted level of 131%. Some states are still determining the impact, while a few others have showed a much smaller area of affected farmland than Karnataka. “The figure [10.2 lakh hectares] given by NDRF includes all kinds of farmlands, including horticulture area and so on. So far, our department has information about crop loss on 2.35 lakh hectares,” said BY Srinivas, director, the state agriculture department. “We are waiting for joint survey reports from all districts, though our information will not include area under horticulture.” Sunflower, corn, groundnut, paddy, cotton, and paddy grown on 170-180 hectares in Belagavi and surrounding areas are among the crops that have suffered. “These are the crops we’ve identified so far; we will have to wait for the final report,” Srinivas said. Other department officials said unseasonal showers had caused two problems: they had hit standing crops from the previous sowing season and led to flooding in fields where the new sowing cycle had begun. “NDRF generally makes an accurate assessment about damage. Coastal and north Karnataka districts have been the worst affected. Belagavi, Kodagu, Bagalkot, Vijayapura and Uttara Kannada alone have lost crops on about 7-8 lakh hectares,” said Maruti Manpade, who takes up issues of farmers’ interests with authorities. Source - https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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