Ramsinh Rajput was barely able to harvest his castor, jowar and bajra as unseasonal rains destroyed most of the standing crop. And now with a good part of his 50 bighas of farmland in Vav taluka in north Gujarat remaining waterlogged, he has to delay the sowing of the Rabi crop – he is planning to take up it in the next cycle.

Most of the farmers of north Gujarat, where water does not drain easily because of the terrain, are facing the same predicament.

The farmers, who have suffered crop loss after the heavy rainfall in September, have been affected by unseasonal rainfall in October, leading to massive crop damages across the state.

The farmlands in several districts including Vav-Tharad, Banaskantha, Patan, Kutch and Junagadh still remain waterlogged after weeks of rainfall. The chanc

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