Groundnut, cotton growers in Gujarat worried over unseasonal rains

Unseasonal rains in areas of Gujarat has concerned cotton growers and also posed a threat to the harvested groundnut crop, which was saved in open up at the industry yards or at the area.

Farmers in Saurasthra and Central Gujarat educated that a drastic transform in the climate with rains and powerful winds in some areas has impacted kharif crops like groundnut, chana (gram) and cotton. Other crops that are impacted are banana, winter season wheat and onion crops.

“There had been clear advisories issued by the Point out authorities, such as the respective APMCs, to the traders and farmers not to bring their crops owing to the possibility of a climatic disturbance from November thirty to December 2. The damages are not sizeable but at isolated locations,” stated an agriculture formal in the Point out.

Crops unprotected

Farmers stated that most of the kharif groundnut crops are harvested and saved possibly at the fields or at the industry yards. “Due to big quantities of sacks packed with harvested groundnut, there had been not protective covering for the sacks at quite a few locations. This prompted damages to the harvested crops,” stated a farmer. Notably, quite a few industry yards had introduced closure for Wednesday and Thursday, directing farmers not to bring their harvested crop for the auctions amidst climatic uncertainty.

The Fulfilled department had predicted major rains in areas of Gujarat and Saurashtra. About 89 talukas in the districts of Vadodara, Chhota Udepur, Narmada, Surat, Ahmedabad, Anand, Surendranagar, Bhavnagar received the unseasonal showers.

In its initial advance estimate, the Gujarat Govt has projected groundnut output to the tune of 39.94 lakh tonnes, although for cotton it has projected the kharif output of 80.95 lakh bales (every single of a hundred and seventy kg). Between other foods crops this kind of as pulses, the kharif output is approximated at four.5 lakh tonnes.