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Due to strong wind and rain, paddy crop sown in the fields, faces of farmers withered | News India

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Kalanur: On Sukkurwar, in various villages of Kalanur block under the border district Gurdaspur, the faces of the farmers were sad as the paddy crop got scattered in the fields due to high speed wind and rain. Giving information in this regard, Kulwant Singh, Avtar Singh, Dilbag Singh, Bagicha Singh, Prem Singh, Sarabjit Singh said that the paddy crop they had grown like Sona, which was expected to yield good yield, but today suddenly and rapidly It rained.

A crop like gold has grown in the fields. Apart from this, Kamad and Basmati crops have also fallen in the fields due to strong winds. Farmers said that during the period of inflation, about Rs 20 thousand per acre has been spent on plowing the fields, ploughing, rent, plowing by tractor, apart from fertilizers and spraying expensive medicines to protect against the attack of leafhoppers. He said that the strong wind And due to rain, the paddy crop has become thin and the ripe paddy crop in the fields has become thin and the risk of its spoilage has increased. Let us tell you here that this time paddy has been sown in 1 lakh 70 thousand hectares in district Gurdaspur.