Divar: For the fourth year in a row, Rama VeLingkar has seen the plant destroyed when the gods weather play Havoc.
The aging farmer from Sao Mathias village in Divar Island said this rice plant was spoiled year after year because of heavy rainfall or the entry of salt water but his request to the power that would do something deaf.
Like a long-term understanding spell, farmers like Velasar can only watch as rice seeds transplanted both floating or rot in the laying field.
For rice cultivators, they only get one shot every year to plant rice, usually Jyoti or Jaya varieties.
Already struggling with low profits, increasing labor costs and small land ownership, farmers also have to deal with erratic and damaged rainfall.
Suryakant Harichandra Bombah from Sao Mathias, who is also known as Malar, remembers the time when all the ancestral fields produce good plants.
Upset with the setback of consecutive agriculture he has gave up agriculture.
“For four years I lost everything, almost Rs 50,000 every year.
This year I planted rice in a small patch but heavy rain has flooded my field.
If I’m lucky, it can be saved,” Vewingar said.
Local farmers said that government officials came to check their fields but despite running from the pillar to send and follow up with officials, nothing was done.
They also said that they had never received compensation from the government for their agricultural losses.
“Government officials came, the ministers came, they saw the situation and they said that a report would be prepared.
We have never seen any reports.
The government asked us to submit our photos in our fields, which we did but nothing,” said Bombar.
Rohidas Krishna Mandrekar, who headed Xetkari and local, frustrated and lived in the obedience after seeing his hard work was swept away for three consecutive years.
“This is the first time I have not fostered anything.
I am sick.
Everything is damaged by rain, strong winds that make everything come down.
Water comes upon the bund and achieves whatever we planted,” said Mandrekar.
Local activists and Director of Documentary Film Amancio Tomas Rodrigues said that Bunds had been destroyed because of the movement of high-speed vessels along the river.
The movement of water sports crafts and crafting pleasures, which creates a high up, has weakened the Bunds, which then collapsed with heavy rainfall, Rodrigues said.
“Our main problem is Bund because of which water goes into our fields.
When the water level rises, it weakens the bund or where it has been damaged, salt water flows in,” Rodrigues added.