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[ Prafulla Kaman ]<\/strong><\/p>\n PASIGHAT, 9 Sep:<\/strong> Several hundred farmers of East Siang district and adjoining areas in north Assam, who mostly depend on rainwater for agricultural activities, have been affected by the deficit rainfall caused by a long dry spell during the monsoon season from May to July this year.<\/p>\n Sources in the district agriculture office (DAO) here informed that about 5,748-hectare area out of a total 15,137 hectare cropped area in East Siang district was affected by deficit rainfall this monsoon, which covers 38 percent of the cropped areas, including wet rice cultivation fields.<\/p>\n The DAO recorded 717.9 mm rainfall with 31 rain-days in the peak season, and it was said to be less than the annual average.<\/p>\n The ADOs serving under the district office also reported that out of the total 119 MIC (minor irrigation channels), 35 channels were found dry during the period.<\/p>\n The DAO compiled the field reports on the drought-affected sites last month and submitted them to the state director of agriculture for considering a contingency crop plan as part of mitigation policy.<\/p>\n As per office records, the farmers of the district last year gained around 42,140 mt paddy production in a 15,137-hectare cropped area (wet paddy cultivation), and the yield was @27.84 quintal per hectare area. But due to declining cultivation, they are estimating only 14,940 mt production @18 quintal per hectare area this harvest season.<\/p>\n On the other hand, the agriculture scientists working with different institutions in East Siang district have suggested to the state agriculture department to approve a contingency crop plan, including cultivation of cash crops, improved variety pulses and oil seeds for the affected farmers of the district for mitigating the situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [ Prafulla Kaman ] PASIGHAT, 9 Sep: Several hundred farmers of East Siang district and adjoining areas in north Assam, who mostly depend on rainwater for agricultural activities, have been affected by the deficit rainfall caused by a long dry spell during the monsoon season from May to July this year. Sources in the district […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-270469","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}