SCANTY RAINFALL: PADDY PLANTS TO WILT IN B’NGIR
Monday, 03 August 2015 |
PNS | BALANGIR | in Bhubaneswar
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Even as the dark clouds
hover over the Balangir sky indicating arrival of heavy rain, they belie the
expectation of farmers. Scanty rainfall, woefully inadequate to carry out
further agricultural operations of paddy crop, has left the farmers high and
dry. After broadcasting the paddy, the next process in cultivation is
transplanting which requires standing water in the paddy field.
However, according to
official sources, so far the district has received 249.4mm rainfall against the
normal average rainfall of 360 mm in the district.
Most of the rainfall
occurred either in a localised or in an erratic way which has only helped in
keeping the paddy plant alive. In the absence of a heavy rainfall, the
agriculture operations in paddy crop have virtually come to a halt in the
district. According to official sources, transplanting of paddy crop has been
taken in 18,334 hectares of land. Out of 14 blocks of Balangir district, namely
Puintala, Loisingha, Bolangir, Bongomunda, Gudvella and Agalpur have received
less rainfall. Unless there is a rainfall of 50-60 mm in a single day or even
more within four to seven days, the paddy crop will wilt, says Deputy Director
of Agriculture Manoranrjan Mallick.
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