Bhubaneswar: Cyclone Jawad saved Odisha’s great damage but brought a lot of rain behind him, destroying the plants standing up and flooded several lowland areas.
The system lost steam and turned into depression on Sunday afternoon, moved to the northeast to West Bengal Beach and further weakened to the low pressure area which was well marked.
Paradip records the highest rainfall of 201 mm rainfall on Sunday.
“It’s almost similar to Cloud Burst when it rains more than 10 cm in one hour,” said H R Biswas, Director of Central Bhubaneswar IMD.
Some places in the Jagatsinghpur district also recorded heavy rainfall – 188 mm in Erasama, 130 mm in Balikuda, 114 mm in Kujanga and 123 mm in Nuagaon – since Sunday morning.
Farmers in the Ganjam district looked at the vast crops, the rain was not the season caused by Cyclone Jawad for the past three days has destroyed the expectations of farmers expecting bumper plants to recover from the losses they suffered in November.
Hundreds of hectares of plants stand like rice, chili and vegetables have sunk in the Ganjam district due to heavy rains under the influence of Jawad, while farmers in several areas are struggling to drain water from the fields.
Khallikote recorded 158 mm highest rainfall in the state in the last 24 hours followed by Chhatrapur (86.6 mm), polyper (74.8 mm), Kodala (71.4 mm), Ganjam (68 mm), Gopalpur (60 mm ), 58 mm), Hinjili (56 mm) and Rangeilaunda (51.2 mm).
“I have harvested from two hectares and rice lying on the threshing page.
Because there is no choice to store it in a safe place, harvest plants are damaged in the rain,” said Santosh Pradhan from Aska.
“Because we cannot harvest rice, around two hectares of sinking plants,” said Hara Das from Begunia.
Like Santosh and Hara, some farmers in the district bear the burden of typhoon-induced rain, which destroyed their expectations of the bumper harvest.
Some of the rice quintals who were harvested were also damaged by Namek rain in November, the source said.
Ganjam Collector Vijay Amruta Kouse said the rating of plant damage would be carried out from Monday, according to the special assistance commissioner guidelines.