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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Climate change is real: Severe drought hits Assam’s wet regions -Aatreyee Dhar

Climate change is real: Severe drought hits Assam’s wet regions -Aatreyee Dhar

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published Published on Jul 30, 2021   modified Modified on Aug 2, 2021

-Down to Earth

Never seen a drought of this magnitude, claim farmers; paddy crop affected

Climate change is real. Droughts in the rainy state of Assam are not unheard of anymore. Warmer temperatures have affected the state’s tea gardens for a decade. Now, places recently experiencing unexpected and longer dry spells are catching the eye. 

“Never before have I seen drought in this region,” said Dipantor Soh, a 28-year-old farmer from Mirigaon, a village under the Sarupathar revenue circle. The Assam government had declared the revenue circles of Sarupathar and Golaghat drought-hit a week ago.

The farmers are left to fend for themselves for the state government does not provide any irrigation facility. 

“I paid Rs 1,150 per bigha of the land for three hours,” Soh added. He owns seven bighas of land, and grows rice and tea there.

But his efforts could only do little. His farm production suffered. When asked about his estimated his crop yield, he put it at 50 per cent of what was expected. This translated to a monthly income of less than or equal to Rs 10,000.

Another villager from the Sarupathar revenue circle suffered a similar fate. Kuladhar Gogoi, in his late 50s, is a part-time farmer. The scale of the drought was such his farmland developed huge soil cracks, he said. The last time he saw a drought of such magnitude was 10 years ago. 

The soil condition was not ideal for paddy cultivation.

“At this time the soil should have been flooded with water,” he said. Usually, rice seeds are planted in the soil a month after the soil is ploughed.

But fearing unpredictable weather, he sowed the crop seeds immediately after ploughing the soil. So did other many other farmers. “This affected the quality of the rice. I will make only 30 per cent of the crop yield this time,” he said. 

On July 16-17, Assam finance minister Ajanta Neog and irrigation minister Ashok Singhal visited the drought-hit villages — right after the state declared them a drought-zone three days ago. Only to be accompanied by a heavy downpour that irrigated the fields.

“Now the rain-fed farming has come to rescue,” Kuladhar said.

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Down to Earth, 30 July, 2021, https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/agriculture/climate-change-is-real-severe-drought-hits-assam-s-wet-regions-78200?fbclid=IwAR0GRUY5Wren7z2jyhC1j6frW1pgnAU9PYbEtKna68CfV85gEauL2Ny1Ge4


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