The farmers of the villages along the banks of the Ganges cultivate vegetables in abundance in the form of jayed crops in the Ganges sand, along with cucumber, cucumber, cantaloupe, watermelon, which they supply by morning trains to Lucknow. Apart from Kanpur, he has been doing it in Allahabad, Barabanki, but in the last two years (Corona period), his business has remained confined to the street areas of Unnao.
Despite all the troubles during the epidemic, the availability of vegetables remained to everyone. Now for the third year after getting relief from Corona, the adverse weather conditions are wreaking havoc on the farmers. It is noteworthy that the sands of river Ganga, spread for a distance of about 120 km from Block Ganjmuradabad to Sumerpur in the border of Unnao, have been considered a boon for the farmers here. But in the last two years, the corona epidemic and in the current year, the burning sun has become a problem for the Zayed crop.
Vegetable growers Manohar Lal, Shivkumar, Rajkumar, Ramchandra, Sakte, Hiralal, Mahadev told that the heat on the banks of the Ganges is scorching the farmers along with their crops, due to which the farmer is now unable to see the cost of his produce. It is said that the farmers of Unnao cultivate cucumber, cucumber, cantaloupe, taroi, gourd, bitter gourd and pumpkin and watermelon in the Ganges.
This time in March itself, the lines of concern are clearly visible on the foreheads of the farmers due to the extreme temperature of the temperature. According to the affected farmers, the scorching sun has had a profound effect on the Zaid crops. In fact, in the villages of Buxar, Mankapur, Osiya, Bighapur, Shuklaganj, Pariyar, Rooppur Chandela, Gangadaspur, Chhatrapur, Maila, Naubatganj, Jagatpur, Madhapur, Parshurampur etc. in the Katri area of the Ganges, farmers have sown hundreds of bighas of Zaid crop this time as well. According to the progressive farmers of the state, from the last week of March to the end of July, apart from vegetables, cucumber, cucumber, cantaloupe and watermelon have been filling the pockets of farmers with cash, but this time their production is more than expected. Has not started accordingly.
Although till Holi, the farmers were assuming that this time there would be a good yield and they would be able to compensate for the previous loss by earning more than the cost, but in the scorching sun of April, their dreams got scorched automatically. Farmers cultivating in the sands of the Ganges are making every effort to save the crop, but they are not getting success in their efforts.
Business farmers Maddar and Mukim say that they have irrigated the fields twice as much as before to save them from the heat, but every other day the leaves of the crop dry up and they say that in February-March the weather was fine to some extent and the crops She was looking green. In such a situation, he hoped that this time there will be a good yield, but due to the sudden increase in temperature in this way, everyone’s wishes were dashed.
The scorching April sun has scorched the crops prematurely. Farmers say that if the sun continues like this, then the crop which is left will also get scorched. Tens of thousands of rupees have been spent on Zayed crops on the basis of credit cards, so now everyone is worried about repaying the loan.