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| 40 % mango crop damaged, orchardists seek help | | Storm dashes hopes of Jammu farmers | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, May 24: The drastic change in the weather pattern coupled by the strong winds is wreaking havoc on poor mango farmers of Jammu division. The orchardists are incurring heavy losses in their crop production and have sought government help to get out of the crises.
Reports inform that in the current season, the mango crop was flourishing in Jammu. However, the drastic change in the weather and storms have caused wide scale damage to the mango trees at large, leaving the farmers perturbed in more ways than one. Due to the high speed winds, raw mangoes have fallen off from the trees in abundance and as per the initial reports, the crop has suffered damage to the tune of between 30 to 40 percent of the total produce.
The farmers associated with the cultivation said that amid the ongoing pandemic and subsequent lockdown, they are not even able to sell the raw mangoes that had fallen off trees in the open market at lower prices. They added that if such a stormy situation hits the crop again, they will be completely devastated and utterly in crises. Reports inform that Mango crops have already suffered major losses in Akhnoor, Bhalwal, Khaud, Samba, Mansar, Udhampur and adjoining areas.
Farmers in India, particularly the regions located in the Northern parts of the country, have been bearing the brunt of the climate change with huge losses incurring their crops every year.
In the year 2016, the temperature in India’s northern state of Rajasthan touched 51 degrees Celsius in the month of May and broke the record of the previous years. An estimated number of 1000 people died in the state due to dehydration and hyperthermia. The occurrence of a heat wave that year killed 800 people in southern states of the country.
The World Health Organization (WHO) report launched at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP24) in this Polish city on December 5, last year asked India to tackle climate change. “India and China could gain massive health benefits by tackling climate change and for India, the gains could be $3.28-8.4 trillion,” says the report.
It says that the latest estimates from leading experts indicate that the value of health gains from climate action would be approximately double the cost of mitigation policies at global level, and the benefit-to-cost ratio is even higher in countries such as China and India.
As per the government data, the persistent drought and surge in temperatures has affected more than 330 million people in the country in the past two years.
Government of India has stated that its approach will be guided by principles and provisions of UNFCCC and Paris Agreement particularly the principles of Equity and Common but Differentiated Responsibilities and Respective Capability (CBDR-RC). |
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