Pune: The State Department of Agriculture estimates that plants planted in 1.5 lakh hectares of agricultural land in this country have been damaged by heavy rain and recent floods.
Senior officials told Tii on Saturday that they expected the last figures to be much higher and said Kharif ago in some areas affected had not been ruled out.
A rough estimate until the night of July 23 showed that more than 10,000 farmers in Pune District had been affected, with damage to plants spread across 3,183 hectares.
“Our assessment is still active.
The initial plants losses are pegged on the hectare of 1.5 lakh but can increase.
Until now, plant damage has been reported in Pune, Kolhapur, Sangli, Raigad, Ratnagiri, Palghar, Thane, Parbhani, Nanded, Akola, Container, Nagpur and Wardha.
Agricultural land has sunk in Konkan, Kolhapur and Sangli, “said an official of the Senior State Department of Agriculture.
The official said wherever there was a loss of loss because of the flooding in Konkan, there might be damage to rice plants.
Until now, the Ministry of Agriculture has mainly received reports on losses on plants such as rice, soybeans and vegetables.
Trim soybeans are especially beaten badly.
“Kharif sowed done in more than 119 lakh hectares so far; most of them stood on the arrow that grew,” the official said.
The survey team from the Ministry of Agriculture still has not been able to access many fields in affected areas and is expected to increase so the field survey is completed, the official said.
Other senior officials say figures of losses of plants in Kolhapur and Konkan are still awaited.
Officials said farmers who had an agricultural field next to the river and stuck that had been flooded might have to do resowing when the top layer might have been swept away.
“There has been the collapse of vegetable plants in Western Maharashtra, although it is relatively less when someone moves towards Nashik-Pune.
But losses are reported in most countries because of heavy rain,” said Shriram Gadhave, President of the Indian Vegetable Farmers Association, said.
Gadhave explained that flood water revoked vegetable plants from fields.
The root of “vegetables’ extends only a few feet to the ground and can be easily removed in such weather.
Thousands of tons of vegetables tend to be damaged, but until now, there are no official figures,” he said.
He said among fruits and vegetables affected by tomatoes, cucumbers, cabbage, cauliflower, and pumpkin.
“Onions, which are currently in storage structures, can also be influenced by rotten; there are reports of flood water which seeps through a storage structure basis like that,” Gadhave said.