Apr 12, 2012 - The World AgroMeteorological Information Service

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Executive SummaryThere are reports of occurrence of thunderstorm and hailstorm in Northeast, East and Northwesternregions in the country during last week, particularly, in Murshidabad, Malda, Dinajpur, West Midnapur,Kharagpur, North and South 24 Parganas districts in West Bengal, Purnia and Katihar districts in Bihar,Kinnaur, Lahul and Spiti and Kullu districts in Himachal Pradesh, Pithorgarh and Nainital districts inUttarakhand, Amristar, Ludhiana and Malwa region in Punjab, Varanasi region in Uttar Pradesh, Delhi,parts of Mizoram, Assam and Meghalaya. Matured wheat and other standing crops have been lodged anduprooted due to associated high wind and rainfall. Wheat, boro rice, maize, sesame, vegetables, pulses,sunflower, jute and papaya in West Bengal, wheat, maize and banana in Bihar, maize, banana, citrus andpassion fruit in Mizoram, vegetables in Meghalaya, wheat in Delhi, apple in Himachal Pradesh and wheat,mustard, arhar, gram, field pea, vegetables and mango in Uttar Pradesh had been damaged. Appropriateadvisories are issued to different locations under Integrated Agromet Advisory Services to prevent thedamage.Maximum temperatures were 4 0 C above normal over most parts of Jammu & Kashmir, HimachalPradesh and some parts of Punjab and West Rajasthan. Thundersqualls with wind speed reaching 55-65kmph would occur at one or two places over Uttar Pradesh, Assam & Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur,Mizoram and Tripura, Punjab, Haryana and Delhi during next 24 hours. Farmers in these States are advisedto undertake harvesting of matured wheat, rabi pulses and oilseed crops immediately and also arrange formechanical support for vegetables and young plants in orchards.Significant rainfall occurred over most of the districts in Arunacahal Pradesh, Assam, Jammu &Kashmir, West Bengal and Kerala and few districts over Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Chhattisgarh,Uttarakhand, Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa, Karnataka and Coastal Andhra Pradesh during last week. Realisedrainfall in these districts is beneficial for the standing summer crops. Farmers in these districts are advised topostpone irrigation. As there was no significant rain over most of the remaining parts of the country and nosignificant rain is likely to occur, farmers are advised to provide irrigation to the standing summer crops andundertake harvesting of matured rabi crops.Due to favourable weather conditions, incidences of fruit borer in mango in Madhya Pradesh, white antand white grub in groundnut in Orissa, aphids, thrips, mites, hoppers and white fly in rice fallow cotton andmealy bug in vegetables in Tamil Nadu and bacterial leaf blight in rice, shoot and fruit borer and mites inbrinjal and fruit borer in tomato in Karnataka are noticed below economic threshold level (ETL). Farmersare advised to undertake appropriate plant protection measures to control the pests and diseases, if theirpopulation goes beyond ETL.Due to favourable weather, farmers are advised to undertake sowing of summer crops with assuredirrigation. Sowing of the crops in different States of the country is mentioned below:Assam: sowing of ladies finger, ridge gourd, sponge gourd and jute and transplanting of early ahurice.West Bengal: sowing of jute and marigold.Punjab and Haryana: sowing of summer moong, summer mash, okra.Delhi: sowing of summer moong.Rajasthan: sowing of cotton.Himachal Pradesh: sowing of pea.Orissa: sowing of jute.Bihar: sowing of moong and urad.Maharashtra: sowing of cotton.
Detailed Report on Impact of thunderstorm, hailstorm and high wind andheavy rainfall on standing crops.West BengalEastern RegionCrop damage due to Hail storm.Tender mango fruits in most of the orchards and wheat and paddy cultivation in Malda and Dinajpurdistricts were damaged. In Murshidabad and Malda districts, due to hail storm activity Boro rice andmango plantations faced severe damage. At present mango is in fruiting stage and hail storm activity hascaused fruit drop as well as fruit damage which might affect the mango production this year. In Maldadistrict, thunderstorm along with hailstorm occurred and crop damages were reported in some bolcks(Manikchak, Kaliachak 1 & 2, English Bazar) as follows:Wheat: grain loss reported where wheat was not harvested yet.Maize: crop damages was reported.Vegetables: crop damages occurred in vegetables such as ladies finger, bottle gourd, bitter gourd.Mango: Fruit drop was reported due to hailstorm.Due to heavy hailstorm of last week some of the nearby areas of Kharagpur block have faced crop loss.Those who have planted wheat late, they are now facing problem due to rain and heavy storm as theharvesting is continuing as well as the threshing process also. Farmers of Keshpur block of westMidnapur have lost near about 100 bigha of rice and 100-150 bigha sesame crop due to the naturalcalamities.During the past few days there has been thunder storm activity over different districts of West Bengal. Theseason's first nor'wester claimed several lives along with causing damage to farmers’ households. Thunderstorms accompanied with hail storm activity has severely affected the Boro rice as well as the vegetablecrops like brinjal, bottle gourd, pumpkin, pointed gourd, chilli which are either at fruiting stage orseedling stage. Many blocks of North 24 Paraganas. (Bashirhat, Amarkati and adjoining blocks) havereported several hectares of vegetables, pulses, cereals, jute, papaya cultivation damage due to hail andthunder storms activity.In South 24 Paraganas. (Sandeskhali and other adjoining blocks) there are reports of salt water upsurgeas a result banana crop has been affected. Rice, which is in anthesisstage was also affected due saltwater insurgence and hail storms.Name of the Stage of the cropNature of damagecropBoro rice 80% matured Lodging of panicleSunflower Maturity Lodging and discoloration nod headSummer MaturityCracking of fruitcucurbitsOkra Maturity Shading of fruitsWater melon Maturity Cracking of fruitMango Tender fruit Cracking and dropping of fruitLitchi Going to mature Fruit shading and crackingAmount of rainfall received from 11 th to 12 th April: 18.6mmWind speed during storm: 55-60km/hourTime of storm: Afternoon hours
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