Rain, squall hit wheat crop hard
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Title
Rain, squall hit wheat crop hard
Description
Bathinda: Rain and squall that hit the Malwa region on Tuesday night damaged or flattened the near-mature, ready-to-harvest wheat crop at some places. The procurement starts from April 10 but the storm has stopped harvesting, blackened the grain, and added moisture that will take days to dry up. Tough action to enforce the Food Corporation of India’s revised specifications worries the farmers. Farm unionist and BKU (Ekta-Ugrahan) secretary Shingara Singh Mann said: “The inclement weather is expected to drive more farmers to return home from the protest sites on the Delhi borders to tend to the crop. It will take a special girdawari (revenue survey) to assess the loss and compensate them, since the untimely rain impacted almost the entire region.” Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal visited Ghudda village in Bathinda to assess the loss to the standing crop and demanded compensation for the farmers.
Publisher
The Times of India
Date
2021-04-08
Coverage
Chandigarh