Now drought leaves vegetable growers high and dry in Himachal
Sat, May 1 2021 13:57 IST |
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Shimla, May 1 : Vegetable growers in Himachal Pradesh are sowing crops but reaping despair.
Last year it was nationwide lockdown owing to the coronavirus pandemic. This time drought has left them high and dry. Owing to scanty rainfall from January to end of March, crops have been severely hit in the entire area, Nasib Singh Thakur, a marginal vegetable grower in Kandaghat tehsil in Solan district, told IANS.
He said almost 60 per cent of the crops in Rabi season like peas, cabbage, capsicum, beans, cauliflower and cucumber are damaged due to long spells of drought from December onwards.