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Bengaluru: 10-member central team to study state’s drought situation from Nov 17

  •   Wed, Nov 14 2018 09:59:06 PM

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Bengaluru, Nov 14: A 10-member Central inter-ministerial team will be touring Karnataka for an on the spot study of drought-prone areas of districts for three days from November 17.

Revenue Minister R V Deshpande told reporters in Bengaluru on Wednesday that the team led by Union Agriculture Ministry Joint Secretary Amitab Gautam would be divided into three groups and tour the State’s drought hit districts.

The State government has declared 100 taluks in the State as drought hit.

Deshpande said he and Agriculture Minister N H Shivashankara Reddy met Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and submitted a memorandum seeking the Centre’s aid under the NDRF Rs 2,434 crore.

The State had suffered crop loss to the tune of Rs 16,662 crore owing to deficit rainfall during 2018 monsoon, the Minister said.

The team would tour the districts of Raichur, Yadgir, Ballari, Chikkaballapur, Chitradurga and Tumakuru, he said.
  

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  • Joe Britto, Nakre/Mangalore

    Thu, Nov 15 2018

    Not only;y drought in 100 Talukas, even in the reaming Talukas, the rainfall has been excess or the Distribution uneven.

    So actually only a handful of Talukas have received normal and evenly distribute Rainfall this year .This normal rainfall is a must for growing a decent crop.

    Karnataka has just about 20 % of its area under Irrigation and the rest are depending on the vagaries of the Monsoons.
    Apart from weather Issues, the Farmers in Irrigated tracts who have had a fairly good Crop have not got a decent price for their hard earned produce . Even Plantation tracts growing Coffee , Pepper etc have been badly affected.

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