Excess rainfall and flooding in northern parts of the Karnataka has caused damages to crops on over 9.6 lakh hectares. Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, who carried out the aerial survey of flood affected districts such as Kalaburgi and Yadgiri on Tuesday, said according to preliminary survey crops have been damaged on 9,60,578 hectares.
Of this, standing agriculture crops have been affected on nearly 8,88,953 hectares and horticulture crops on 71,626 hectares. While the excess rains and flooding has resulted in widespread damage to the standing kharif crops, the delayed withdrawal of monsoon is also set to pose challenges to the farmers in the region.
