KARNATAKA : POWER CRISIS
The agricultural yield, including food grains and vegetables, have gone down by more
than 50 per cent this year. Adding to the farmers’ woes, there was a loss of groundnut crop worth Rs 225 crores. Of the 1,45,533 hectares of land cultivated during the kharif season, 90,389 metric tonnes of crops in 1,41,730 hectares of land were spoiled, agriculture department officials informed. This ‘powerless’ situation has affected not only Chitradurga but farmers across the state. “Over 37 per cent of the land in Karnataka is cultivatable, and around 50 lakh acres of land is irrigated through pump sets. But shortage of rain, followed by severe power shortages, will only worsen the situation.
This is responsible for the spiraling prices of vegetables,” says KS Puttannaiah, president of Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha, who holds the government responsible for the current crisis. “The government tends to mislead the farmers, assuring them free power supply during the monsoons. But when the rain stops, the load shedding begins,” complained Kodihalli Chandrashekhar, working president of Karnataka state farmers’ association. Some drastic needs to be done to bail out the farmers. Now!....Continue
The agricultural yield, including food grains and vegetables, have gone down by more
than 50 per cent this year. Adding to the farmers’ woes, there was a loss of groundnut crop worth Rs 225 crores. Of the 1,45,533 hectares of land cultivated during the kharif season, 90,389 metric tonnes of crops in 1,41,730 hectares of land were spoiled, agriculture department officials informed. This ‘powerless’ situation has affected not only Chitradurga but farmers across the state. “Over 37 per cent of the land in Karnataka is cultivatable, and around 50 lakh acres of land is irrigated through pump sets. But shortage of rain, followed by severe power shortages, will only worsen the situation.This is responsible for the spiraling prices of vegetables,” says KS Puttannaiah, president of Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha, who holds the government responsible for the current crisis. “The government tends to mislead the farmers, assuring them free power supply during the monsoons. But when the rain stops, the load shedding begins,” complained Kodihalli Chandrashekhar, working president of Karnataka state farmers’ association. Some drastic needs to be done to bail out the farmers. Now!....Continue
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