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Rain hits standing crops
UNTIMELY RAIN followed by hail storm has proved fatal to the standing wheat and gram crops. Framers will incur heavy crop and financial loss if the existing weather continued for another few days.According to a noted soil scientist and the Vice-Chancellor of the Chandra Shekhar Azad Agriculture and Technology University (CSA) Dr MM Agarwal, the storm like winds followed by rain have not only destroyed the standing crops, but it has affected the prospects of the crops sowed recently.
UNTIMELY RAIN followed by hail storm has proved fatal to the standing wheat and gram crops. Framers will incur heavy crop and financial loss if the existing weather continued for another few days.
According to a noted soil scientist and the Vice-Chancellor of the Chandra Shekhar Azad Agriculture and Technology University (CSA) Dr MM Agarwal, the storm like winds followed by rain have not only destroyed the standing crops, but it has affected the prospects of the crops sowed recently.
He apprehended that the three days ‘bad weather’ has caused at least 10 per cent damage to the wheat and the gram crop, as the crops were at the final stage of ripening, but the hail storm damaged most of the plants.
An agro-specialist at the Indian Institute of Technology MD Singh apprehended that the mango crop was badly affected due to inclement weather conditions.
Most of the mango fruits would be infected by the diseases and would not reach at the ripening stage. These weather conditions would also damage the vegetable crops.
Scientists at the CSA unanimously suggested that the farmers should take their damaged crop to storage places.
The weather observer at the CSA Dr VS Varma apprehended that if the rain continued for a few days more, it would disturb the next seasonal cycle and the rain would either be delayed or they would be very scanty and untimely.
