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Cyclone Montha has inflicted extended harm connected agriculture crossed Andhra Pradesh, with the preliminary appraisal by the Agriculture Department revealing that implicit 43,000 hectares of crops person been submerged, affecting astir 83,000 farmers crossed 292 mandals and 1,712 villages.
Preliminary estimates paint a grim representation of wide harvest harm successful the coastal and adjoining districts.
According to the department’s data, paddy and fabric are the worst hit, unneurotic accounting for much than 80% of the full damaged area.
Paddy fields successful 31,267 hectares were inundated, portion fabric crops implicit 15,680 hectares suffered extended harm owed to continuous rainfall and flooding.
Among the districts, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Konaseema reported the highest harvest harm with 10,099 hectares being submerged, followed by Prakasam (8,299 ha), Y.S.R. Kadapa (3,767 ha), East Godavari (3,195 ha), and Bapatla (2,928 ha).
Other coastal districts including West Godavari, Kakinada, and Eluru besides registered important harvest damage. The information bespeak that low-lying areas and paddy-growing belts on the seashore are the worst deed owed to incessant rainfall and flooding triggered by the cyclone.
In summation to paddy and cotton, maize implicit 4,393 hectares and blackgram crossed 3,004 hectares were damaged, portion smaller extents of bajra, redgram, and soybean suffered partial losses. The study noted that 53 hectares of harvest nurseries were affected successful respective regions, compounding the interaction connected farmers’ livelihoods.
Officials said that enumeration teams were conducting elaborate tract assessments to ascertain the afloat grade of damage. The authorities is expected to initiate compensation and rehabilitation measures erstwhile the last study is consolidated.
