BHUBANESWAR: The state government has asked the collector of the district to make a proper assessment of large scale destruction of crops caused by heavy rains ceaselessly since Friday, under the influence of Typhoon Jawad, which made landfall near Puri around noon on Sunday , Although there is a pause in the rain in most districts on Monday, the sky remained cloudy in the coastal parts of the country as a depression over the Bay of Bengal moves towards the Bangladesh coast as a low pressure pocket, as IMD has predicted.
However, heavy rain continued to attack northern districts and the coastal state is reduced even under the influence of Typhoon Jawad, flooded rice paddies and vegetable plots.
State sigh of relief at least no further warning of more wet spells in the store.
“We’ve been trying to report the damage assessment of the district collector.
After reviewing the damage caused to crops due to severe bouts of rain, the compensation will be given to the affected farmers according to the code of relief,” revenue and disaster management minister Sudam Marandi said.
However, this does not give comfort to the farmers who have lost all the rice to bulk precipitation.
“I have lost everything I had grown.
Plants that are ready for harvest in waist-deep water.
They will rot in the fields,” Ananta Nahak, a farmer from the village Lunghuri in Ganjam block, said, cursing his fate.
Nahak has grown rice on 1.6 acres of land.
Although the state government has issued a warning about the impending cyclone and heavy rain that would bring in tow, the farmers could not harvest them at short notice.
A handful of farmers who succeed do not have a safe place to store and can not even take back home.
“I had expected a bumper crop this year.
But the hurricane destroyed everything.
Now I do not know how to make ends meet and pay off the loan,” Sudhakar Sahu, a farmer from niali block in Cuttack district, said.