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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Nearly 60% of Vidarbha's orange orchards dead due to drought -Snehlata Shrivastav

Nearly 60% of Vidarbha's orange orchards dead due to drought -Snehlata Shrivastav

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published Published on Jun 21, 2019   modified Modified on Jun 21, 2019
-The Times of India

NAGPUR (Maharashtra): Changing weather conditions in Vidarbha over the past few years have spelt doom for orange cultivation in the region. In the near seven-decade history of orange plantations here, this is the first time that an alarming 60% orange orchards have gone completely dry and, for all purposes, died this year.

The loss is stark in Warud tehsil of Amravati district followed by Katol and Narkhed tehsils of Nagpur district. For the first time, big and rich farmers are talking about selling off their lands and switching to other occupations.  

The vagaries of weather, scanty and erratic rains in last two years coupled with prolonged high temperatures throughout May and delayed pre-monsoon rains this year are responsible for this unheard-of plight of orange farmers. The loss caused to the ambia bahar crop alone (which fruits in September) is being pegged at about Rs1,620 crore. (mrig bahar, the other crop, fruits from February to April). However, the loss due to orchards (15-20 years) dying completely cannot be monetarily pegged.

Shridhar Thakre, one of the Maha Orange directors and a big farmer, told TOI that he had stopped going to the orchards as he could not see the condition of the trees. He owns a 20-acre land with 3,500 orange trees in Talegaon village (Ashti) in Wardha district with irrigation facilities. But there is no water in the wells. The water table has gone below 1,000ft.

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The Times of India, 19 June, 2019, https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/50-60-orange-orchards-in-vidarbha-dead-due-to-drought/articleshow/69847633.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_m


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