JAISALMER: Farmers in Jaisalmer and Barmer districts are worried about their crops due to lack of rain in the area. Sowing in Barmer district has been less than the target due to less than average rain. The target of sowing in Barmer district was 14.79 lakh hectares, but it has been done in only 12 lakh hectares. Now, the crops are on the verge of wilting due to no rain. The situation is no different in Jaisalmer district.
In Jaisalmer as well, crops in 3 lakh hectare area have gotten damaged. With drought approaching in Barmer, the district administration has started the preparation. District collector Lok Bandhu called a district level meeting of PM Fasal Bima Yojana to conduct a survey of sowing.
Collector Lok Bandhu said that there has been no rain in majority areas of the district due to which around 75% of the sown crops are on the verge of getting damaged. Preparations have been started to provide compensation of crop insurance to the farmers and directions have been given for girdawari. The survey will be completed in one week. He said that the insurance company is not ready to accept that the sown seeds have grown so as per rules, compensation cannot be given, but when it was checked at our level it was found that the seeds have grown, but we will try to persuade the insurance company that the farmers be given compensation for the sown crops.
Lok Bandhu held a meeting with SDO, agriculture department dy director Virendra Singh Solanki and agriculture insurance company officers. As per PM Fasal Bima Yojana guidelines, survey has to be done on time, so directions have been given to all officers to conduct the survey in time.
Solanki said that the survey was started from Tuesday by the employees of agriculture, revenue and insurance company and local sarpanch and public representatives will be with them. Survey has been started by forming teams at the tehsil level.
Farmers say that they are worried about their crops. They had taken loans and did sowing, but after 2.5 months and no rain, they are now in a fix. Crops are getting damaged and they had taken loans for second sowing and now, they are facing problems repaying them. They are hoping to get help from the government.
