date:Aug 14, 2012
tonnes, stated Dr K Narayan Gowda, VC, UAS.
According to him, cereals, especially paddy, would be the worst hit as these would fall by 30-40 per cent. Paddy crop loss was estimated at half of the three lakh hectares in the Cauvery basin area of the state.
The production of pulses, which included red gram, groundnut and oilseeds were also to be impacted inevitably. At the moment, the latest weather forecast indicates that the state would receive normal rainfall for the rest of the month as well