: In a Haryana district, waterlogging is forcing farmers to give up farming and take up odd jobs #IndiaNEWS Sonu Kalkal, a farmer living in Imlota village in Charkhi Dadri district of Haryana, used to

@IndiaNEWS

Posted in: #IndiaNEWS

In a Haryana district, waterlogging is forcing farmers to give up farming and take up odd jobs #IndiaNEWS
Sonu Kalkal, a farmer living in Imlota village in Charkhi Dadri district of Haryana, used to cultivate his own land and harvest bumper crops. The 42-year-old has now turned landless. The stagnation of excess water and a high rise in water table in the agriculture fields have turned the once fertile lands into sandy ruins, forcing Kalkal and many farmers in this part of the north Indian state, to sell off their agricultural lands.“I could not take it anymore,� said the worried Kalkal, who had to sell off five acres of his land. “I was under a debt running in lakhs and the compounding interest on it was killing me. The agricultural land, which once used to spin gold, had turned into a liability for me.�“It has been one-and-half decades,� said the father of four. “As the water table was rising, the financial wealth of farmers in the cluster was falling at the same pace.�The residents of the village, whose main occupation was farming before the waterlogging situation, now work as motorcycle mechanics, small-time shopkeepers or labourers in factories at Gurugram.Manoj Kalkal, a graduate from Dadri’s Janta Degree College, said that out of 1,700 acres of agricultural land, 1,200 acres were left without sowing...Read more

Intraday stocks under 50 NSE India Twitter of India

Vote Up Vote Down

Login to post a comment!