KENDRAPADA: Incessant rain and following flooding because of Yaas has damaged big tracts of both ready-to-harvest green gram, black gram, vegetables, banana, betel and other plants in Kendrapada district Aul, Rajkanika along with Rajkanika blocks.
“I discovered black gram developed over an acre a week, but couldn’t do this over the remainder three acres because of non-availability of all labourers.
My harvest was ruined,” Santosh Kar, a farmer in Namatara village,” stated.
Likewise, the vegetable plants of Bhaskar Jena of the Kalaspur village has been ruined.
He’s very troubled because he must go back the bank .
The cyclone has hit on the market of approximately 5,000 betel farmers using heavy rains accompanied by high velocity winds seriously damaging the plantations.
“Had there been no cyclone, we’d have been active harvesting betel,” explained Nityananda Swain, farmer of Suniti village.
Following the pure catastrophe, the farmers dread more losses for their plants if rainwater isn’t flushed out in their territory in a week,” said Umesh Chandra Singh, a farmer president and leader of Krushak Sabha, district community.
Each year farmers of the regions face crop loss because of cyclone, flooding, much less rain along with unseasonal rain.
“But very little is done to relieve their difficulties.
Farmers are still attempting to evaluate their losses,” added Singh.
The government’s faulty agricultural coverage is liable for the woes of peasants.
“The farmers not guarantee their plants and endure through natural disasters.
The government is to invent a definite policy to assure the lands.
The affected farmers must be given with seeds and farm loans,” rued Singh.
Official sources stated all of cyclone -affected farmers will be supplied loans in the authorities, combined banks or financial institutions.
“Seeds will be given to these also.
The government has led the district agriculture officer to compose a report on harvest reduction,” explained Sambeet Satapathy, the district crisis officer of Kendrapada.