Monsoon heaves sigh of comfort for Punjab farmers

INDIA: Farm owners in Punjab, experiencing serious water disaster for paddy hair transplant, have heaved a sigh of comfort with monsoon lastly providing much needed rainfall for the dry area. The paddy hair transplant has grabbed in the condition in the past two days, even as farmers have been able to change off their pushes running on diesel fuel to water the areas.

Officials in the farming division are optimistic that the condition farmers will make good the missing time this 7 days after the south-west monsoon strikes the condition. The south-west monsoon, the life line of Native indian farming, where 60 percent of cultivable area is not irrigated, had hit Kerala on May 5 and skipped its date with Punjab on May 29. Until September 4, there was 30 percent lack bad weather.

Punjab farming division combined home Gurdial Singh said the lashing of down pours in the south area will not only increase planting functions, but would help deal with feedback costs, especially diesel fuel use for watering. In Punjab alone, diesel fuel sale in May when paddy planting season starts, has taken up by 18 percent to 2.98 lakh kilo ltrs.

In the north-west Native indian, monsoon bad weather till September 4 has been 83 percent below the period of time regular. However, down pours and thundershowers are required to happen at a few places in Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, eastern Rajasthan this 7 days, said the IMD prediction for the 7 days finishing September 13.

Because of late monsoon and power lack, the planting of major kharif plants, such as paddy, guar and maize in Punjab and Haryana had been hit, with area under farming of these plants going down significantly.


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