Maharashtra: Rain in Hingoli district for the second consecutive day: After soybean, cotton crop suffers major damage, further worsening farmers' hardships
Rain lashed Hingoli town and the entire district for the second consecutive day on Thursday, continuing late into the evening, causing significant crop damage. While the previous rains had already destroyed the soybean crop, the blown-out cotton fields are now rotting, causing hardship for cotton farmers.
Hingoli city and district were hit hard by rain in August. Rain continued in September, destroying any remaining soybean. In some areas, farmers had planted soybean and cotton crops, but the rain damaged the soybean and damaged the standing soybean crops. This has reduced soybean yields to less than two bags per acre.
Meanwhile, rainfall has decreased once again. The district received heavy rain on Wednesday, the 29th. Kalamnuri taluka received heavy rain, with 65 mm of rain recorded in the past 24 hours. Following this, for the second consecutive day, Thursday, heavy rain fell across the district three times, each within 30 minutes. The heavy rain continued until late evening.
Meanwhile, cotton harvesting is underway in the fields. However, since the rain began on the sprouted cotton, the cotton has wilted in the fields. This has caused significant damage to cotton, followed by soybean. The continuous rain has left farmers wondering when to harvest.
Farmers Fear Double Sowing
Continuing rain across the district has delayed the sowing of gram crops for the Rabi season, and farmers fear that if heavy rain occurs after sowing, it will lead to double sowing. Therefore, farmers have prepared their fields for sowing and are waiting for the rains to resume, farmers said.
Five gates of the Isapur Dam were opened.
Due to this rainfall, the flow of water into the Isapur Dam has increased, and on Thursday, five gates of the dam were opened by half a meter, releasing 8,541 cusecs of water. Meanwhile, six gates of the Yeldari Dam were opened by half a meter, releasing 8,439 cusecs of water.
