Unseasonal rainfall in different parts of integrated Karimnagar district of Telangana on 26th and 27th January has caused widespread damages to various standing crops resulting in huge loss to the farmers.
Despite the fact that the showers had bought some relief to the farmers who had cultivated paddy, it crushed the dreams of maize and mango growers. The maize crop was totally flattened because of the nonstop rains and flowering mango plants were badly damaged.
According to the preliminary reports available with the agricultural department, the maize crop was spoiled in more than 160 acres in Gangadhara, Choppadandi and Manakondur mandals. In the same way, the crop was also damaged in several hundreds of acres in Rajanna-Sircilla, Jagtial and Peddapalli districts. Blooming mango orchards which were at the flowering phase were badly damaged in Rajanna-Sircilla, Karimnagar and Jagtial districts.
The rains across the district over the last two days also struck chilli farmers, drenching their harvested produce mostly lying in open fields and leaving them distraught.
The rains at the crucial harvesting stage proved a bane for many chilli growers in Tirumalayapalem, Nelakondapalli, Raghunadhapalem, Kusumanchi, Konijerla, Yerrupalem and several other districts in the chilli belt.
