This weekend, Bengaluru received non-stop rains, brought in by Cyclone Mandous. The cyclone has weakened after it made landfall off Mamallapuram in Tamil Nadu and is on the retreat. However, due to the intensity of Mandous' stormy winds, many vegetable crops were washed away by the rain.
Now it's raining again. Beans, chilli bajji and tomatoes are rotting on the land due to the rains that have been pouring for the past few days. Apart from this, flowers and pods of vegetables like eggplant, ridge gourd, bitter gourd are dropping off. The crops like beet root, carrot, onion and potato are rotting due to stagnant water. Spinach will rot even if there is a little water while growing.
Farmers and traders are worried that if it rains like this for a few more days, the crops will be damaged further and the prices will be expensive.
Source: thehansindia.com
