Unseasonal rain showers in regions of Punjab on Saturday, create fear in farmers with them expressing fear over wheat damage. Rains with strong winds and hailstorms at some places lashed the state's several parts, including Bathinda, Fazilka, Ludhiana, Patiala, Amritsar, and Pathankot.
Punjab encountered heavy rains at a time when the wheat crop was all set for harvesting. Wheat procurement season starts on April 1 in Punjab and Haryana.
Several farmers rued that their crops got flattened because of rains and high-velocity winds, which hit the crop yield. A farmer in Bathinda said the yield of his wheat crop will be affected because of untimely rains.
Meanwhile, the Shiromani Akali Dal asked Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann to order a 'girdwari' to assess crop damage due to rains and hailstorms.
"Unseasonal rain and hailstorms have flattened the wheat crop across vast swathes in the Malwa region of the state. This is a double blow to farmers who faced a hailstorm some time back. CM Bhagwant Mann should order a girdawari to assess damage to the wheat crop as well as provide interim compensation to farmers immediately," SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal said in a post on X.
Bathinda MP and Sukhbir's wife Harsimrat Kaur Badal stated, "Today's hailstorm in the Malwa region, the second in a month, has flattened and destroyed wheat crops across vast swathes in Punjab. Farmers, who have not been compensated for the earlier crop damage, should be awarded interim compensation immediately till such time the girdwari is not ordered and completed".
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