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Mumbai: Drought-like conditions in Chhatrapati Sambhajnagar (Aurangabad) and Jalna districts of Maharashtra have killed over 11 lakh monsoon trees.
An official of the state agriculture department said that due to acute water shortage and lack of water in the soil, 4,062 hectares of sweet lime trees had been destroyed.
Maharashtra is at the top in the country in monsoon production. In the Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar and Jalna districts of the state, farmers cultivate monsoon in 35,850 hectares. 277 trees are planted in one hectare. Due to severe water shortage due to continuous rains last year, 11,25,174 trees have completely dried up. Of the two districts, farmers of Jalaun have suffered the most. Trees planted on 3600 hectares of land in Jalna have been burnt.
Prakash Deshmukh, a senior official of the agriculture department, said that like sugarcane, monsoon withdrawal is also high. But this time the crop has been ruined due to waterlogging. Mosambi trees have to be cut when they dry up. Trees aged three to fifteen years have dried up.