Even the Yaas-induced rain has ruined reputation rabi paddy plants over large tracts of property from Sambalpur district.
The district also reported 55.
49 millimeter rain in the previous 24 hours from the normal rainfall of 32.
3 millimeters in May.
Even though Jujumura block captured 38.
2 millimeter rain in the previous 24 hours, then Dhankauda block obtained 36 mm of rainfall.
In the same way, Rengali block listed 75 millimeter rain, Maneswar 36.
4 mm, Kuchinda 75.
8 mm, Jamankira 54.
6 mm, Bamra 98.
4 mm, Rairakhol 31 mm and also Naktideul 54 millimeter rainfall in the previous 24 hours.
Sources said several farmers hadn’t chosen paddy because of lack of labourers and the harvest was damaged because of unseasonal rain, causing enormous loss for farmers.
Secretary of Sambalpur Zilla Krushak Surakhya Sangathan Byomakesh Thakur said producers of this district rely upon labourers in Chhattisgarh, Bargarh and Balangir district to harvest the crop.
“Because of this next tide of Covid-19, the labourers did not turn up.
Today 70% farmers are to harvest the crop,” he explained.
Thakur said farmers, who’d chosen paddy with machines and maintained the harvest in the open following threshing, also have incurred losses because paddy from the luggage has got damaged from the heavy rain.