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Monsoon 2022: Jharkhand farmers give up on paddy harvest due to scanty rains -Md. Asghar Khan

-Down to Earth

Lowest amount of rainfall in the last decade; climate change to blame, says Met

Paddy cultivation in Jharkhand this Kharif season has taken a huge hit, with most farmers expecting a meagre yield. Monsoon 2022 saw a massive deficit in rainfall — the lowest in the last 10 years. 

“I doubt I can harvest even a kilogramme of yield this year,” Mahendra Prasad told Down To Earth. The farmer in Hazaribagh district’s Katkam block had produced ten quintals of paddy on one acre of land last year.

He had sown paddy last year by July 27, thanks to the good monsoon. “This time, there has been no rain. It has been 45 days since I sowed the seeds, so there’s no point waiting now,” the farmer said, adding that transplantation needs to be done around 12 days after sowing. 

There are 600 households in his village called Banadag. Around half of them have transplanted paddy this year, but only on around 20 per cent of the land. Prasad has two acres of land and cultivates vegetables on one acre. Farming is the only source of income from his family’s livelihood.

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