Bhandara, Farmers have to face the wrath of nature every year. This time also the farmers of the district have to face unseasonal rains. In the month of January, neither the farmers nor the public need rain. This is not the time of rain, yet on Sunday, when it rained in the evening in some areas of Bhandara city and tehsil, the farmers caught their heads.
Due to the rain around four o’clock in the evening, on the one hand the crops of the farmers were affected, on the other hand, due to this rain, the cold is expected to increase further. On Sunday, there was bad weather since morning, seeing that it was already being expressed that there might be rain till evening and it did rain in the evening.
The rain which started at four o’clock took a break after some time, after that at 6.30 pm, the rain came again. Although the rain did not last for a long time, but this rain has increased the problems of the farmers, as well as the speculation is being made that the weather will be cold due to this rain.
Bhandara city as well as Palandur region remained cloudy throughout the day on Sunday with unseasonal rain since 4:00 pm. This rain has increased the concern of the farmers, because the paddy of some farmers is kept for sale at the government support price paddy procurement center. Due to the space in the warehouse, the paddy of many farmers was kept outside in the procurement center, due to the rain, the problems of the farmers have increased.
It is noteworthy that last few days due to unseasonal rains, the paddy kept in farmers’ fields got wet and now due to unseasonal rains again the remaining paddy has also got wet, due to which the concern of the farmers has increased. In Palandur region, most of the farmers also cultivate vegetables, the cultivation of vegetables is also feared to be damaged due to unseasonal rains.
Many crops were ruined earlier also due to various diseases. Due to the occurrence of various diseases during Kharif crops, many vegetables and fruit crops including chilli, maize, wheat, gram, poppet, cotton, peas, lac, lakhori were damaged, now once again the farmers are worried about the bad weather and Unseasonal rain has increased.