Papaya Cultivation: That’s why the peasant class considers itself the weakest. Sometimes rain, drought, flood and sometimes other calamities ruin his crops. This year also, due to rain, flood and drought, farmers’ crops worth crores of rupees have been ruined. When there is no loss from them, then other reasons start making the farmers cry. The farmers of this state are also now moaning from such beatings. Here the virus has ruined papaya crops only.
Virus ruined papaya crop in Maharashtra
Papaya crop is rapidly getting wasted in Maharashtra. For this reason, farmers are turning to other crops. According to media reports, information about virus attack on papaya crop is being received since last week. This is an attack of fungal virus. Virus attack is increasing rapidly in many villages of Beed district of the state. Due to this the farmers have suffered huge losses.
Loss of lakhs of rupees, farmers crying
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There are many farmers like this in Beed district. Who had planted papaya crop in several acres. Now she is ruined. According to media reports, farmers say that papaya crop has got fungal virus. The crop is about to start ripening now. But now due to virus attack, papaya itself has started getting wasted. Millions of rupees would have been earned from papaya crop. Now there will be no earning.
First spots, then rotting papaya
After the virus attack, first spots appear on papaya. Later papaya turns black and starts rotting. Such papaya is of no use to the farmers. The farmers have prepared the gardens by spending lakhs of rupees. Due to virus attack, now the farmers themselves are destroying the orchards.
This is how the virus attacked
This time papaya was growing well in the gardens. But the papayas had suffered a lot due to the rains last month. The rain had caused rot in the papaya trees. This bacteria was responsible for the rotting. Now papayas have started getting spoiled badly. Farmers are requesting help from the government for compensation. On the other hand, pomegranate and mosambi orchards in the state have also been damaged by the rains.