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Rains raise hopes of State farmers [1]

While the agricultural scientists are urging for speedy completion of seedling transplantation to save the agricultural sector in this drought-like situation, the Agriculture Department expects that by the end of August, transplantation activities would be able to cover about 95 per cent of the winter paddy crop area if the present weather condition persists.

Publication Date: 
06/08/2009
Assam Tribune (Guwahati) [2]
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Agriculture [3], Natural Disasters [4], Droughts [5], Farmers [6], Compensation [7], Rainfall [8]
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