BSE NSE Portfolio Tracker Login Password Forgot Password New users Click here to register. The floods, triggered by unusually heavy monsoon rains in Orissa and upstream areas in neighbouring states, also forced authorities to release water from the massive Hirakud dam. Orissa normally produces around five million tonnes of rice each year. The rice crop on the coast, where about 40 per cent of the state s rice is grown, were damaged, an official of the Central Rice Research Institute of the Union agriculture ministry said. According to the available information, about 355,00 hectares of crop area in the state has been damaged, an official of the National Disaster Management cell of the Union agriculture ministry said.
Rice is the main winter-harvest crop of the state.
Crop survival chances are hardly five to 10 per cent in these areas, the CRRI official said, adding farmers would have to replant the crop. Sowing in low-lying coastal Orissa was completed in June. Only 10-20 per cent of the rest of the rice growing areas of the state had been sowed, he said. These areas are droughtprone and rice sowing is normally completed by mid-August, the CRRI official said, adding that this season, there has been adequate rainfall. Monsoon rains in Orissa have been unusually heavy this year.