Due to release of canal water in Chhatarpur district, crops standing in hundreds of acres of fields of farmers of Mahayaba village were submerged. This caused a loss of lakhs of rupees. Farmers say that their crops have been ruined due to the negligence of the irrigation department. Farmer Swatantra Shastri says that every year the fields get flooded. This time more acres have been flooded. Every year 250 acres of farmland gets flooded. There were peas and wheat in our 7-8 acre farm, which has been ruined.The field is…
Read MoreChhattarpur: Farmers’ fields turned into ponds, hundreds of acres of crops destroyed, demand for compensation from the government
