Kharif crops are being damaged due to heavy monsoon rains and floods.
12-Aug-2024 10:37 AM
New Delhi. This time the southwest monsoon has been gifting heavy rains to almost the entire country, which is not only helping in sowing of Kharif crops but also developing them in a better way, but due to extremely torrential or excessive rainfall in many parts of the country and severe floods at the local level due to the rise in rivers,
the possibility of damage to crops has also increased. Earlier the monsoon was more active in South and West India,
due to which there was an atmosphere of heavy rain and floods in Maharashtra and Gujarat, but now the monsoon has moved north.
The Meteorological Department has issued different rain alerts for many states located in the northern and northwestern and eastern and northeastern parts of the country.
Along with Delhi-NCR, Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir have been receiving heavy rains for the last few days,
due to which there is news of damage especially to pulses and oilseeds crops due to waterlogging in the fields. The actual damage will be known after the survey.
It is worth noting that the overall area of Kharif crops is ahead of last year, on the basis of which an increase in production can be estimated, but it is also necessary to pay attention to the damage caused to the crops due to floods and rains.
Crops like moong, millet, soybean and groundnut are cultivated on a large scale in Rajasthan, while some productive districts there have come under the grip of floods. Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Saurashtra division of Gujarat were also going through a similar situation.
Heavy rains are continuing in eastern and northeastern India. It is known that due to lack of rain in August last year, a serious crisis of drought had arisen in many states, due to which Kharif crops were affected.
This time the Meteorological Department has predicted 106 percent rainfall in the country as compared to the long-term average (HPA).