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Fear of drought looms large over Bundelkhand; paddy and pulses crops affected -Arun Singh

-Gaon Coonection

Half of the southwest monsoon season is almost over, and several districts in the Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh are still waiting for good rainfall. Paddy and pulses farmers are staring at a wilting crop. They fear a drought year ahead.

Panna, Madhya Pradesh 

"July is about to end, but where is the rain?" 

With a marked anxiety in his voice, Malkhan Singh Gaud, a 55-year-old farmer from Madhya Pradesh's Panna district pointed towards his drying seedlings of paddy spread across an acre [almost half an hectare] of land. 

"If it doesn't rain in the coming three-four days, my entire paddy crop will fail. The tiny seedlings have already turned yellowish. It's not a good sign," Gaud, an adivasi farmer from Panna's Bilha village told Gaon Connection. "I don't have the facility to irrigate my field from a well or a tubewell. I will have no source of livelihood if my paddy crop fails," the worried farmer added. 

Unlike Gaud, his neighbour Sonelal Patel has an old well near his field from which he daily fetches thousands of litres of water to keep his paddy saplings from drying off.

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