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Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis connected Sunday (April 5, 2026) said his authorities volition supply each assistance to farmers who person suffered harvest harm and fiscal losses owed to unseasonal rains successful respective parts of the State implicit the past fewer days. Unseasonal rains accompanied by hailstorms and gusty winds person caused extended harm to crops successful respective districts of Maharashtra, and losses person been reported connected much than 1.22 lakh hectares of land.
"The authorities volition supply assistance to each affected farmers. In Maharashtra, whenever determination is unseasonal rainfall oregon hailstorms, we behaviour surveys and supply compensation. The aforesaid volition beryllium done this clip arsenic well," the CM said here.
Officials had said a mates of days agone that the interaction has been terrible successful northbound Maharashtra and parts of occidental Maharashtra, Marathwada and Vidarbha, affecting implicit 82,000 farmers.
The worst-hit districts see Nashik, Ahilyanagar, Jalgaon, Dhule, Buldhana and Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, wherever lasting and harvested Rabi crops person suffered large-scale damage, they added.
Crops acceptable for harvest specified arsenic wheat, gram, jowar and bajra person been flattened successful respective places, portion effect orchards including grapes, pomegranate and mango witnessed dense effect drop, they said.
Heavy rains were besides reported successful Pune and Nashik districts.
