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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Bihar: 48 per cent rain deficit, 35 districts stare at drought -Santosh Singh

Bihar: 48 per cent rain deficit, 35 districts stare at drought -Santosh Singh

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published Published on Jul 23, 2018   modified Modified on Jul 23, 2018
-The Indian Express

Though drinking water supply has not been hit yet, officials said that as per the assessment of the public health and engineering department, the water table has gone down by one to three feet in 28 districts as compared to last year.

Patna:
As many as 35 of the 38 districts in Bihar stare at drought because of a 48 per cent rain deficit at the end of three weeks in July. Only 19 per cent of paddy has been sown so far. The state government will wait till this month’s end to take a final call on declaring drought.

Banka, Madhubani and West Champaran are the only districts to have received average rainfall, while Patna, Arwal, Aurangabad, Bhojpur, Jehanabad, Vaishali and Siwan are among those which had received less rainfall compared to the others.

Though drinking water supply has not been hit yet, officials said that as per the assessment of the public health and engineering department, the water table has gone down by one to three feet in 28 districts as compared to last year.

The state government has been mulling the option of asking farmers to cultivate maize, oats, peas, arhar, kulthi, urad, moong, lobia and lentils, besides vegetables such as raddish. The cultivation of alternative crops could cost Rs 9264.19 lakh for 6,75,409 hectares where paddy may not be sown due to lack of adequate rainfall.

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The Indian Express, 23 July, 2018, https://indianexpress.com/article/india/bihar-48-per-cent-rain-deficit-35-districts-stare-at-drought-5270331/


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