Crops destroyed after untimely rains at Koradur village in Haveri district.
Hubballi: There appears to be no end to the woes of the agrarian community in north Karnataka.
Farmers who had hoped to recoup losses they suffered owing to a particularly intense monsoon between June and September, with a promising harvest of the rabi crop have more cause for despair with unseasonal rain in January destroying produce ready for reaping.
Worse still, flowering of the mangoes that ought to occur this month too has been impacted owing to the rain. This is likely to push the price of the tropical fruit up this year. Bapugouda Bharamagoudra, an organic farmer in Yalavatti in Gadag, said that the prolonged monsoon had compelled the ryots to defer sowing for the rabi crop. “We had expected to reap a good harvest of chickpea and other such crops. But the untimely rain is destroying crops such as wheat, chickpea and groundnut. While the rain has impacted pollination of the chickpea crop, the qu