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Rampaging Wild Boars Damage Crops In North Kashmir

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SRINAGAR: Wild boars have turned into a formidable foe for farmers across the Hajin area of North Kashmir’s Bandipora district, people complained on Saturday.
The locals said that the wild boars have been on a rampage, causing extensive damage to crops and apple orchards across the area, leaving the agricultural community in distress.
“Despite efforts by wildlife authorities to curb the menace, their attempts have fallen short, leaving farmers in a state of desperation,” they said, adding that the department should take effective steps to put an end to this menace.
“These wild boars have transformed our once peaceful fields into a relentless battleground. They rampage in packs, leaving destruction in their wake and consuming our toil overnight,” laments Mohammad Sultan, a local farmer who sorrowfully recounts the decimation of 30 percent of his prized apple orchard to the insatiable foraging of these formidable beasts.
“We have invested our sweat and blood into these fields, only to witness them being destroyed by these beasts. We need immediate help from the authorities.”
Farmers bear the burden of substantial financial losses while they anxiously await a solution to their plight. The unyielding attack on their means of sustenance has left them disheartened, teetering on the brink of despair.
“Our hopes rest on the authorities comprehending the urgency of the situation and promptly taking decisive action. Our very survival hangs in the balance,” expresses Mohammad Hassan, a fellow farmer affected by the ongoing crisis
Meanwhile, an official said that concrete measures will be taken to protect them from these Wild Boars. Historically, the Wild Boar was brought into the valley by erstwhile Dogra ruler, Maharaja Gulab Singh, for hunting purposes—(KNO)

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( With inputs from : kashmirlife.net )

May 7, 2023
Telangana: CM KCR orders crop damage assessment in Karimnagar

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Hyderabad: Chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao on Sunday directed the officials to assess the damage to crops due to untimely rains in the state.
“In the wake of crop damages due to untimely rains in Choppadandi and Karimnagar rural mandal of Karimnagar district and other parts of the state, CM KCR directed chief secretary Santhi Kumari to take up the assessment of crop damages,” said the CM’s office.
The chief secretary was directed to speak to the Karimnagar district collectors and get detailed reports on crop damages.

కరీంనగర్ జిల్లా చొప్పదండి మండలం, కరీంనగర్ రూరల్ మండలంతో సహా రాష్ట్రంలోని మరికొన్ని ప్రాంతాల్లో కురిసిన అకాల వర్షాల వల్ల పంటలు దెబ్బతిన్న నేపథ్యంలో జరిగిన నష్టాన్ని అంచనావేసేందుకు చర్యలు చేపట్టాలని @TelanganaCS శ్రీమతి శాంతి కుమారిని ముఖ్యమంత్రి శ్రీ కె. చంద్రశేఖర్ రావు ఆదేశించారు pic.twitter.com/vEU08QbX9f
— Telangana CMO (@TelanganaCMO) April 23, 2023
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April 23, 2023
Telangana: KCR asks CS Shanti Kumari to assess crop damage due to rains

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Hyderabad: Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekhar Rao asked state chief secretary A Santhi Kumari to start examining the damage caused by unseasonal rainfall in various regions, particularly Choppadandi and Karimnagar rural mandals.
He asked her to communicate with district collectors about agricultural damage caused by unseasonal rainfall and to compile reports so that further action could be taken.
ఈమేరకు ఆయా జిల్లాల కలెక్టర్లతో మాట్లాడి దెబ్బతిన్న పంటలకు సంబంధించిన వివరాలతో కూడిన నివేదికలు తెప్పించాలని సీఎం తెలిపారు.
— Telangana CMO (@TelanganaCMO) April 23, 2023
Unseasonal rainfall, thunderstorms, and high winds have pummelling numerous sections of the state since Friday night. Farmers’ harvested crops were drenched in numerous locations after being stored for drying.

The hailstorm on Saturday afternoon destroyed several mango plantations in Siddipet, Medak, and other nearby places. Even though the ryots attempted to protect the crop with tarpaulin coverings, the rice piles taken to the markets by farmers in Husnabad were destroyed.
The paddy fields in various Mahabubabad district mandals, including Kuruvi, Sirolu, Chinna Guduru, Marimeda, and Dantalapally, were also devastated by rains and hailstorms.
A poultry farm in the district’s Errakunta tanda in Thorur mandal collapsed, and 20 sheep perished when lightning hit Govindaram in Bheemaram mandal of Jagtial district.
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April 23, 2023
Hailstorms Wreak Havoc In Kashmir Valley, Agriculture Teams Assess Damage

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SRINAGAR: High-velocity hailstorms on Friday caused massive damage to orchards and standing crops in various parts of the valley.
According to reports received by the news agency Kashmir News Observer (KNO), the massive hailstorms created havoc in many areas of Kashmir, especially in Kulgam, Baramulla, and Anantnag districts.
Kulgam district in south Kashmir was hit the hardest, as hailstorms caused significant damage to orchards and vegetation.
Growers from various areas of the valley said that hailstorms and other climatic events have caused extensive damage to their orchards and crop fields.
Abdul Jabbar Naik, a grower from Kulgam, said that hailstorms caused severe damage to his orchard, and the fruit-bearing capacity of the trees will be reduced this year.
He said orchardists have been spending all their earnings on fertilisers and labour for their orchards and crop fields. “This year, we expected a good crop as our orchards seemed to be abundant with apples, but the hailstorm dashed all our hopes,” Naik said.
The growers have urged the government to compensate them for the huge losses they have suffered over the past several years.
Meanwhile, Director of Agriculture Kashmir, Chowdhury Mohammad Iqbal said that Kulgam was the worst affected by the hailstorm that hit the valley.

“Our teams are on the ground to assess the damage,” he said. (KNO)

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( With inputs from : kashmirlife.net )

April 21, 2023
Heavy Rain, Flash Floods Damage Bridge In North Kashmir

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SRINAGAR: The authorities on Thursday halted traffic movement on a bridge in Langate area of north Kashmir’s Kupwara district after surface under it started caving in due to flashfloods.
Quoting an official, KNS reported that surface under bridge over Mawer Nallah started caving in due flashfloods following heavy rainfall in the area.
He said as a precautionary measure, traffic movement has been halted on the bridge.
The bridge is locally known as “Daand Kadal” and was a key link connecting several villages.
Meanwhile, authorities have urged locals to exercise caution and avoid crossing the Nallah until alternative arrangements can be made. Officials have rushed to the spot to assess the situation.

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( With inputs from : kashmirlife.net )

April 20, 2023
Rains damage vital bridge in Langate, public movement restricted

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Handwara, Apr 20: The intermittent rainfall for the past few days has caused damage to the vital bridge in Lagate area of Handwara, prompting authorities to restrict the public movement as a precautionary measure.
An official told the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that Daand Kadal – a bridge over nallah Mawer that connects more than 20 villages has been closed for the public movement as the bridge has developed a partial damage due to intermittent rainfall and increase in the water level of the nallah.
“Though the extent of damages to the bridge is being assessed, however, people are being requested to refrain from crossing the bridge over the nallah,” officials said.
Meanwhile, locals alleged that the concerned department didn’t pay heed to the worse ning condition of the bridge for the last four years.
Despite repeated attempts, Tehsildar Langate couldn’t be contacted for the comments as he didn’t receive the phone calls—(KNO)
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April 20, 2023
‘Our compensation?’: Telangana farmers who suffered crop damage in July 2022
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Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekhar Rao on Thursday announced compensation for farmers who suffered crop losses over unseasonal rains this March. However, the decision has not brought pleasure to all farmers of the state.
Responding to yesterday’s announcement by the chief minister over disaster relief assistance to farmers, Rythu Swarajya Vedika (RSV) organized a press meet at Somajiguda press club, with flood-affected farmers and Tenant farmers from 4 districts describing their situation and response to the CM’s announcement.
RSV welcomed the government’s decision to provide Rs 10,000 per acre support for crop damage in 2.2 lakh acres during March 2023, and to direct the support to tenant farmers wherever they are cultivating.
However, RSV activists said, “If the government is serious about addressing the issues on an ongoing basis, this support should not remain a one-time exercise for the damage caused in this month, but made into a policy decision. Lakhs of acres of crop damage is being suffered every season by farmers due to natural calamities or pest attacks.”
They urged the Telangana government to announce a policy decision to give Rs 10,000 per acre support to all affected farmers and enumerate affected farmers immediately after the calamity in a routine manner – “not related to political developments.”
“The identification and inclusion of tenant farmers should not be a one-time measure, but it should be done every year, as required by the Licensed Cultivators Act, 2011. Only then, the distress of the farmers in the state will be addressed,” they added.
Two flood-affected farmers from Kupti village, Neredigonda Mandal, Adilabad district, Badha Venkataramana and Haridas Ramanayya shared their situation.
Venakataramana said, “More than 50 farmers in our village suffered severe crop damage during the heavy rains and floods of July 2022. We are asking the Chief Minister – you should give disaster relief support to us too! I cultivated 5 acres of leased land and 5 acres of own land, and completely lost my cotton and soybean crops.”

He stated that officials visited and noted the details but the farmers did not receive any compensation. Along with other farmers in the district, they filed a writ petition in the High Court. “But the government is claiming that our crops recovered magically within a week, whereas our lands remained water-logged for almost 2 months due to flooding,” they said.
RSV activists informed that the court hearings are still ongoing, and demanded that the government should extend the same support to these farmers also.
Kurva Manjula, from Thondapalli village, Parigi Mandal, Vikarabad district stated, “My husband was a tenant farmer who committed suicide on March 1, 2021. We used to lease 5.5 acres of land and cultivate, but we suffered severe crop loss in 2020 and 2021 due to heavy rains and flooding. Due to this, we could not repay high debt of Rs 7 lakhs and my husband lost hope and committed suicide,” she stated narrating her ordeal.
“We did not receive Rythu Bima because we are tenant farmers, nor did we get any ex-gratia from the government. I am struggling with 3 young children, and am still a tenant cultivator, trying to repay the debts.”
She demanded that the government provide ex-gratia of Rs 6 lakhs to victims like her, and also identify the tenant farmers every year and give them LEC cards so that they can also benefit from government schemes and support systems.
Three other tenant farmers participated, who suffered severe crop damage in the past 3 years. Durga Reddy from Dattaipalli village and Balayya from Velpalli village in M.Turkapally mandal, Yadadri district; and Kusuma Samdram Ramesh from Madharam village, Parigi mandal, Vikarabad district.
Key facts on the Crop Damage issue and Tenant Farmers identification
1. Telangana is the only state in the country which doesn’t have any Crop Insurance scheme for the last 3 years since 2020. At the same time, the Telangana government has not been providing Disaster relief support by input subsidy as required by National Disaster Management Act, 2005.
2. Lakhs of acres of crop damage is happening every year due to natural calamities, but since the past 6 years, the Telangana government has not provided disaster relief support. Only when RSV activists filed High Court petition, the government disbursed Rs.23 crores disaster relief in 2018.
3. RSV has been fighting a legal battle through PIL filed in Telangana High Court in November 2020 (W.P. PIL No. 290/2020) regarding crop damage due to heavy rains and floods of October 2020. Despite historic judgment in September 2021, the Government has not distributed relief, and instead appealed in Supreme Court. There was severe crop damage in 15 lakh acres, as per Govt of Telangana’s final assessment report sent to the Centre requesting relief support of Rs.552 crores. The Disaster Management Authority at the Centre gave approval for Rs.188 crores from NDRF/SDRF in February 2021, but even these relief funds have so far not been disbursed.
4. Severe crop damage happened in 2021 and 2022 also due to flooding, heavy rainstorms, Kaleswaram backwaters, hailstorms, and pest attack. Just a few months ago, in July 2022, lakhs of acres were damaged along in heavy rains in many districts along the Godavari river. Several Writ Petitions were filed in High Court by affected farmers demanding compensation but so far the Government has been denying any responsibility to provide disaster relief support.
5. The Licensed Cultivators Act, 2011 requires the State government to identify Tenant Farmers through a simple application and gram sabha verification, and issue Loan Eligibility Cards (LEC) which make them eligible for all government schemes. However, after 2016-17, the Government has not been implementing this Act – which gives a regular process to identify tenant cultivators.
Demands:
a. TS Government should announce policy decisions on Rs 10,000 per acre disaster relief support for crop damage and inclusion of tenant farmers, for all calamities in recent years and in the future.
b. Disaster relief support should be provided to affected farmers of the last 3 years.
c. Effective & Farmer-friendly Crop Insurance scheme should be implemented in TS state, releasing the Notification by May 1, 2023, so that it comes into effect immediately for Kharif 2023.
d. Tenant Farmers should be identified every year, as per Licensed Cultivators Act 2011, provided LEC cards, and given the benefit of all government schemes & support systems including crop loans. Tenant farmers should be noted in the E-crop booking system also.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )
March 24, 2023
Telangana: KCR to tour, examine crop damage due to unseasonal rains

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Hyderabad: Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekhar Rao will evaluate agricultural damage caused by the recent unseasonal rains, and hailstorms in several districts of the state.
“In the context of crop damage due to recent unseasonal rains, chief minister K Chandrashekhar Rao will tour the districts of Khammam, Mahabubabad, Warangal and Karimnagar, will interact with farmers and provide confidence to them,” read a press release from the CMO.
రాష్ట్రంలో కురిసిన అకాల వర్షాలకు పంట నష్టం జరిగిన నేపథ్యంలో, ముఖ్యమంత్రి శ్రీ కె. చంద్రశేఖర్ రావు గురువారం నాడు ఖమ్మం, మహబూబాబాద్, వరంగల్, కరీంనగర్ జిల్లాల్లో పర్యటించి రైతులను కలిసి పరామర్శించి వారికి భరోసా కల్పించనున్నారు.
— Telangana CMO (@TelanganaCMO) March 22, 2023
Unseasonal rains and hailstorm in parts of Telangana have damaged standing crops in more than 1.50 lakh acres, according to initial estimates by the state government.
The unexpected rains and hail storms due to the trough over the state caused huge losses to farmers, who were hoping to reap the Rabi harvest in a few days.
Maize, mango, cotton, and chilli crops have been damaged due to the untimely rains and hailstorm.
Based on the preliminary estimates from District Collectors, Telangana State Rythu Bandhu Samithi president and Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) legislator Palla Rajeshwar Reddy stated that crops over 1.50 lakh acres belonging to 80,000 farmers were damaged.
The actual losses could be much higher. The state government is waiting for reports from agriculture clusters. There are 2,603 agriculture clusters in the state.
Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao has asked the district ministers concerned, the Chief Secretary and the officials to get the details of the damages caused by hailstorm.

The Chief Minister is also likely to visit badly-affected districts on Wednesday. He is likely to announce relief measures after the visit.
The state government has demanded that the Centre should send its teams to assess the damage caused to the crops due to the unseasonal rains.
However, the BRS government does not have huge expectations. Rajeshwar Reddy alleged that during the monsoon, when there was a crop loss of Rs 7,000 crore, the Centre had given just Rs 250 crore.
The opposition parties and farmers’ groups have demanded the state government to come to the rescue of affected farmers.
As the state government is not implementing any crop insurance scheme, the farmers are looking towards the state government to compensate for the loss they incurred.
Some farmers’ organizations are demanding the state government to either implement the Centre’s Pradahan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) or launch its own scheme.
BJP state President Bandi Sanjay claimed that there was a crop loss in more than five lakh acres of crops in about 13 districts.
He said chilli and mango farmers were the worst affected due to rains and hailstorms and added that about 40,000 acres of mango crop has been damaged due to rains.
He alleged that since the Telangana government was not implementing crop insurance schemes of the Centre, farmers were not getting crop insurance for the damages caused due to rains.
In an open letter to the Chief Minister, Bandi Sanjay said that if the state government implemented the PMFBY, farmers would have immediately received the compensation.
However, the BRS government says that the PMFBY is useful only for the insurance companies and not for farmers. It wants the Centre to bring a new crop insurance scheme.
CPI-M state Secretary Tammineni Veerabhadram demanded that a compensation of Rs 20,000 per acre should be paid to each acre to all those farmers who lost their standing crops.

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March 22, 2023
Gyanvapi ‘Shivling’: HC gives ASI last opportunity to clarify whether carbon dating will damage object

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Prayagraj: The Allahabad High Court has granted the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) the last opportunity to file its response by April 5 clarifying whether the process of carbon dating will damage an object, claimed to be a “Shivling”, found inside the Gyanvapi mosque or safe evaluation of its age can be done.
The Hindu petitioners have claimed the object to be a “Shivling”. The claim was disputed by the Muslim side, which said the object was part of a “fountain”.
The court expressed its displeasure over non-filing of response by the ASI despite eight months’ time being given to it.
The court fixed April 5 for the next hearing.
The petitioners, Laxmi Devi and three others, have filed the present civil revision petition, challenging a Varanasi court order that had rejected the demand for carbon dating and scientific determination of the purported ‘Shivling’, found during a court-mandated survey of Gyanvapi mosque premises on May 16, 2022.
On Monday, when the case was taken up, the counsel for the ASI sought more time to file its response as according to him, the ASI has to obtain advice from other agencies as well.
Expressing displeasure over the delay in filing response, Justice Arvind Kumar Mishra observed, “The time extension application has already been given in the garb of obtaining advice from other agencies. Further time should not be sought by the ASI, as the ASI may take advice as it thinks appropriate by embarking upon a process which would expedite the matter. It should not be allowed to go on any further from April 5, 2023.”
The court also directed the trial court in Varanasi, where this case is pending, to fix the date in the trial after April 5.

The petitioners have challenged the Varanasi court’s order of October 14 last year, rejecting Hindu worshippers’ plea for conducting a scientific probe of the ‘Shivling’.
Carbon dating is a method of calculating the age of very old objects by measuring the amounts of different forms of carbon in them.
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March 22, 2023
Telangana rains: KTR seeks crop damage report from officials

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Hyderabad: After the unexpected rains and hailstorm that devastated numerous sections of the Rajanna Sircilla district, Telangana IT and Municipal Administration minister KT Rama Rao directed authorities to submit agricultural damage reports.
KTR called district collector Anurag Jayanthi and asked him to submit a crop damage report.
The Minister directed that agricultural department personnel examine the damaged fields and write a report detailing the degree of the damage, the kind of crops destroyed by rains and hailstorms, and the number of farmers who lost their crops.
Crops cultivated on more than 20,000 acres of land were damaged following unseasonal rains, which coupled with hailstorms in various districts of Telangana.
Maize, green gram, papaya and mango and other crops, most of which were in flowering and ripening stages were destroyed by the hailstorm that lashed Telangana on Thursday and Friday.
According to Agriculture department officials, over 18,826 acres of maize, farmed by around 1,930 farmers, was damaged in the erstwhile Khammam district alone.
The horticulture officer in the Kothaguydam district, J Mariyanna said that papaya crops worth Rs 10 lakh were damaged while chilli and paddy farmers also suffered losses too.
In addition to the above, Mango trees were affected in the Madapur village of Ganneruvaram Mandal.

However, the damage was comparatively less in the Karimnagar district, with maize and paddy flattened in several places.
Horticulture officer Sunitha said that the intensity of the damage is heavy in Kohir Mandal.
Agriculture minister Niranjan Reddy along with Education minister Sabitha Indra Reddy and Rythu Bandhu head Rajeshwar Reddy took off from Begumpet Airport to conduct a survey of the cultivated areas affected in Vikarabad district.
The minister reminded that scientists have been advising farmers to harvest their Rabi crop a month in advance to avoid the risk of their being damaged by hailstorms, a situation recurring every March and April.
Niranjan Reddy further said that farmers in some parts of Nizamabad, Kamareddy, Bodhan and Suryapet have been following the advice of scientists about advancing their crop cycle by a month and that in all workshops farmers were informed the same by agricultural officials.
“Cabbage, onion, maize, watermelon and capsicum crops were largely damaged in the 13 villages under the Mominpet and Marpally mandals of the Vikarabad district by the hailstorm,” added the minister.
Interestingly, Niranjan Reddy said that he was yet to receive reports of crop damage in other parts of the state.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 19, 2023