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Our Correspondent Kohima, June 22 (EMN): After being left distraught for consecutive years due to drought-like situation, timely and moderate rainfall has come as a respite for farmers in Nagaland this year, enabling them to take up cultivation activities, including rice transplantation by June in some villages, which is about a month earlier than usual. Good precipitation hugely determines the agricultural output in the state, be it in districts like Phek, Kohima and Tseminyu where terrace paddy cultivation (upland) is mainly practiced or other districts where jhum cultivation is chiefly practiced. ‘This year, more than 80% of farmers will be able to complete paddy transplanting by June, except for a few fields that are located in the low-lying warmer regions following timely rainfall,’ Sub-Divisional Agriculture Officer, Chozuba, Thepusa Nakro told Eastern Mirror. About 70% of the state population is dependent on agriculture for livelihood and most paddy fields are depend

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