JAYESH BARAD, from Bhuvatimbi village of Sutrapada taluka in Gir Somnath district, owns around 17 bighas of land in the village of which 15 bighas have groundnut and the rest have soybean. His crop was ready for harvest around Diwali, but now he stares at a loss of more than Rs 8 lakh as the unseasonal rain on October 25 completely damaged his yield.

Barad said, “My crop was ready for harvest. But the rain on October 25 proved fatal. My entire crop has failed. Before this, around Navratri, my cultivation of soybean on two bighas had failed owing to the round of unseasonal rain then. I grew soybean only on two bighas’ land… So, it was not a big problem. But this loss to my groundnut crop is major.”

A statement from the Chief Minister’s Office said that the primary estimates had drawn up l

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