Second wave of pandemic rubs salt into the wound of Prakasam farmers
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They prepared pans again after cyclonic storm Nivar unleashed its fury last year
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Extracted salt piled up in the fields at Kothapatnam in Prakasam district as a majority of workers have contracted COVID infection.
 
They prepared pans again after cyclonic storm Nivar unleashed its fury last year
The prevailing heatwave conditions in later part of the March kindled the hopes of Raghava (53), a salt farmer from Kothapatnam village Prakasam district, that he would reap a good harvest.
As the April proceeded, his hopes shattered as a majority of the workers who scrap salt from pans have contracted coronavirus infection.

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