Farmers rue their luck as another storm brews
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Agriculture and aquaculture farmers, who suffered enormous losses on account of incessant rains within the current previous, are an anxious lot with the IMD predicting that heavy rains will happen once more within the area within the subsequent few days.
With the officers predicting the formation of another cyclone and potential rains within the first week of December, farmers are apprehensive about salvaging their produce.
Many aqua and agriculture farmers suffered enormous losses because of the incessant rains that occurred in the previous couple of months. Crops in hundreds of acres had been inundated and fish and shrimp tanks had been additionally broken because of the rains.
Leaders of assorted political events, who visited the broken fields to evaluate crop loss, appealed to the federal government to acquire the discoloured paddy and different broken crops and supply monetary assist to the ryots to recuperate from their losses.
Several paddy farmers had been seen drying paddy on the primary roads on West Godavari and Krishna districts. However, they had been anxious relating to the heavy rainfall prediction within the coastal districts of the State.
“We invested ₹20,000 per acre. But the rains in October inundated the crops, and rainwater stagnated in the fields for a month. Again, we spent around ₹5,000 to pump out the rainwater and clear the damaged crop,” mentioned a farmer Ch. Ramachandra Rao of Alapadu village.
“The crop was harvested by November 20. Suddenly, there was a change in the weather and heavy rainfall occurred in several parts of the State, damaging the produce,” mentioned another farmer K. Nageswara Rao of Undi in West Godavari district.
In Narsapuram, Veeravasaram, Akiveedu, Kalidindi, Korukallu and different mandals, many aqua ponds had been broken because of the rains, mentioned the farmers.
“Irrigation canals were overflowing and tanks brimmed to the full due to incessant rains and damaged the tank bunds in many villages. Rains caused huge losses to fish and shrimp farmers,” mentioned an aqua farmer David Raju.
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