The vast areas of potato fields that began in Bengal on February 24 and ended only five days later after off-season long rains turned into continuous swamps.
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Long and heavy rainfall occurred at the most "harvesting" time, when potato growers began to harvest tubers. The planned completion of the harvest by mid-March, according to farmers, is already completely impossible, unselected tubers will simply disappear in the swampy soil.
But this is not so bad. It is much worse that for the second year in a row, potato growers have faced serious problems - last year an unprecedentedly high potato crop collapsed in the market and, as a result, farmers suffered serious losses and now adverse weather conditions have dealt another blow to potato producers.
Authorities have already begun to travel through the fields in order to fully identify and generalize the extent of the damage caused by nature. It is reported that after full processing of the information received in Calcutta, the state government will consider the issue of compensation payments to affected farmers.
It should be noted that in West Bengal, the total area under potatoes is a total of 4.6 thousand hectares.
