The summer rains lashing Kerala for the past seven days has caused widespread damage to standing crops, with cashew cultivators in North Malabar region alone standing to lose over Rs 150 crore.
Even as the Left is baring its fangs in Delhi to get Kerala%u2019s foodgrain quota cut reversed, their Kerala comrades are being driven up the wall over the paddy harvest issue. The state%u2019s paddy production was hauled up by a token 1.5% last year. So
The crop loss due to continuing summer rains in Kerala is estimated at Rs 109 cr. Kerala Revenue Minister K P Rajendran will meet Union Agriculture Minister, Sharad Pawar today to seek immediate central relief.
As unusally heavy summer rains continued to lash Kerala claiming four lives and inflicting huge agricultural loss in the last few days as the state today appealed to the Centre for providing emergency assistance to tide over the situation.
Lashed by heavy summer rains, Kerala%u2019s paddy crop suffered major losses which will definitely hit the farmers in major paddy growing areas in Alapuzha district.
