Tag: Crop Damage

Bhubaneswar: Collectorates of all districts on Sunday submitted assessment reports of crop loss due to unseasonal rain, office of the Special Relief Commissioner said. According to information, administrations of four districts notably Nuapada, Malkangiri, Sonepur and Jharsuguda have recorded no crop loss due to the unseasonal rain triggered by the low pressure last week. With […]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Saturday asked all the district collectors to submit a report on crop loss due to untimely rain within a period of seven days. Special Relief Commissioner (SRC) Bishnupada Sethi has written a letter to all district collectors to send report of crop loss due to the unseasonal rain to the […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government on Thursday cancelled Saturday and Sunday holidays of employees and other field functionaries of Agriculture and Revenue departments amid increased likelihood of more rain as predicted by the Indian Meteorological Department. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik after holding a high level meeting through video-conferencing directed Collectors of 15 districts to closely monitor the […]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Monday sought reports from five districts on crop damage due to unseasonal rain in the last two days. Special Relief Commissioner (SRC) BP Sethi, in a letter to the collectors of Puri, Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapara, Cuttack and Jajpur districts, said the report should be submitted to him by December 18.The letter […]

Phulbani: Over 12 acres of banana plantation grown by tribal farmers on the embankment of Rahul river in Balliguda Forest Division in Odisha’s Kandhamal district has been damaged by marauding elephants in the last one week, a forest official today said. A herd of about 25 elephants, led by four tuskers, including five calves, went […]

Norwester that lashed several districts of Odisha in the last couple of days has reportedly damaged crops at several places in Balasore and Sambalpur districts.

Bhubaneswar: Unseasonal rain and hailstorm destroyed crops in several parts of the State on Wednesday leaving farmers in distress. Acres of vegetable crops have been damaged in some coastal parts of the State in districts of Balasore, Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapara, Bhadrak, Khurda, Cuttack and some other areas like Mayurbhanj and Keonjhar which witnessed spells of thunderstorm […]

Balasore: Farmers in Odisha’s Balasore district are facing a tough time as the recent unseasonal rain and hailstorm destroyed crops in several parts of the district. Various types of vegetables grown by the farmers here like brinjal, pumpkin, chillies, cucumber have been badly damaged due to the heavy rainfall accompanied by hailstorm that lashed the […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Secretary Aditya Prasad Padhi today reviewed the post-cyclone Fani restoration work in Kendrapara and Jagatsinghpur districts and informed that power supply will be restored in these districts by May 12. “The devastating cyclone Fani claimed three lives in Kendrapara, however, about 1.17 lakh people were evacuated successfully to safer places in the […]

Sundergarh: As if erratic monsoon and drought-like situation was not enough, infestation of a crop-guzzling insect is threatening to wipe out cultivation and pile more worries on farmers of Sundergarh district in Odisha. Identified as Fall Armyworm, the bug has infested hectares of farmland in Kutra and Nuagaon areas of Sundergarh, destroying several types of […]

Kalahandi: Following reports of Fall Armyworm (FAW) infestation in acres of maize cultivation in Sundergarh, the hitherto unseen insect has now started infesting maize crops in several regions of Kalahandi district. After receiving complaints from maize cultivators in Narla and Golmunda about the damage caused to their crops by some unknown bugs, the Agriculture department […]

Bhubaneswar: The extremely severe cyclonic storm Amphan which made landfall in neighbouring West Bengal brought large-scale damages to standing crops in several parts of Odisha. The farmers in the districts of Kendrapara, Balasore, Bhadrak and Jagatsinghpur have been worst hit. In Jagatsinghpur, the cyclone ravaged the betel vineyards causing huge losses to farmers. Bansidhar Swain, […]