The Ganjam district is facing a serious drought situation due to scarcity of rain and lack of irrigation facilities.
Farmers are afraid that they will lose a whole year’s cultivation. Lack of rain is creating a pathetic situation this year for the families of farmers in the district. The farm lands have developed cracks due to scarcity of rain. Farmers of Chhatrapur block have informed that paddy seedlings are already burnt due to severe summer.
There are 15, 358 hectares farm land in Ganjam block and out of this 7,235 hectares are paddy farms. The Agriculture Department of the
district is visiting different affected places and Agriculture Officer of the district Bidur Setha Majhi has informed that there is 50 percent less rain in the district.
Farmer leaders Simanchal Nahak, Mathura Subudhi, Nilakantha Dash and others have demanded immediate irrigation facilities for the affected farming land.