The lush toor crop sown across the district was promising and had kindled hopes among the farmers of making a good profit. But, now neither the crop nor the hopes are alive after the district registered a dry spell for over forty days. While the total targeted area was 4.52 lakh hectares, sowing had taken place on 5.97 lakh hectares in the district. Toor was cultivated on 3.76 lakh hectares, which is the highest among all crops sown in kharif season. They said that the dry spell took away moisture which was essential for the crop to stand for higher yield.

Source: The Hindu November 21, 2016 00:12 UTC