₹5.77 crore disbursed as crop loss compensation

Disbursal of crop loss relief in the district has commenced and 5,798 farmers, whose crops on 5,607.72 hectares were damaged in the recent unseasonal rains received ₹5.77 crore as compensation. Informing this at the farmers’ grievances redressal meet held in the Collectorate on Friday, Collector V. Vishnu said farmers had cultivated paddy on 38,427 hectares, minor millets on 602 hectares, grams on 7,494 hectares, cotton on 663 hectares, sugarcane on 33 hectares and oilseeds on 474 hectares. Precisely, cultivation had been taken up on 47,513 hectares, thanks to the surplus rainfall.