: Farmers in Kalahandi seek compensation over drought-like situation #IndiaNEWS #State Bhawanipatna: Farmers in Odishas Kalahandi marched from a village to the district headquarters here Monday to seek

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Farmers in Kalahandi seek compensation over drought-like situation #IndiaNEWS #State
Bhawanipatna: Farmers in Odishas Kalahandi marched from a village to the district headquarters here Monday to seek compensation over the drought-like situation in the region due to deficient rainfall.
The peasants, around 100 in number, handed over a memorandum to Additional District Magistrate Sarat Chandra Srichandan, demanding that the entire Bhawanipatna block be declared drought-affected and incentives given to the affected farmers, an official said.
According to the weekly-crop assessment by the Agriculture Department, paddy fields have been affected in non-irrigated pockets till August as 10 out of 13 blocks experienced erratic rain.
PTI

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