ANIL KUMAR
JIND: The minimum temperature on Friday is likely to be 29 degrees Celsius while maximum temperature is predicted to reach 43 degrees Celsius
Jind is likely to continue witnessing heatwave-like conditions on Friday as per AccuWeather. On Thursday, the maximum temperature in jind touched 41 degrees Celsius, which was the highest recording this year, with AccuWeather classifying it as the first heatwave day this season.
The minimum temperature on Friday is likely to be 29 degrees Celsius while maximum temperature is predicted to reach 43 degrees Celsius.
The minimum temperature on Thursday was 29 degrees Celsius – one degree below normal and the maximum temperature was 43 degrees Celsius – six degrees above normal.
Meanwhile, Jind air quality was in the moderate category on Friday morning. Data from air quality index (AQI) at 6 am stood at 194. On Thursday, the average 24-hour AQI had been 181, which is in the moderate category. On Friday AQI 280 and PM2.5 air pollution in jind.
An AQI between zero and 50 is considered ‘good’, 51 and 100 ‘satisfactory’, 101 and 200 ‘moderate’, 201 and 300 ‘poor’, 301 and 400 ‘very poor’, and 401 and 500 ‘severe’.
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Due to Heatwave, the fields have dried up and farmers say that Paddy crop which up to Rs 10000 has been spent, the water has also gone 20 feet deep, due to which there is a severe shortage of water. On the one hand, electricity is also not getting the whole time, there are frequent cuts due to which water is not reaching the fields. Farmer Sohan says that if it rains, then the expenses incurred in the Paddy crop can be covered otherwise all else. Only at a loss.
Farmers have planted paddy in the fields. Paddy plants are drying up due to lack of electricity. There is loss in other crops including cotton, sugarcane.
Due to lack of rain, paddy has been planted in only 20 percent of the area in the district. At the same time, the farmers who have planted paddy, it is drying up. On one side where it is not raining. At the same time, there is no water in Sunder Branch and Hansi Branch canal. Due to which tubewells have to be run. Due to this the load of agricultural feeders is also increasing. Farmers say that in the first week of June when there was not much need of water for irrigation. At that time water was released in the canals. When the time came to plant paddy, the water in both the canals was stopped.
Paddy is grown in Jind district in about 1.40 lakh hectares. Out of which, this time paddy has been sown directly in about eight thousand hectares. Paddy has been planted in about 25 thousand hectares and more than one lakh hectares are yet to be planted. Migrant labor has reached the farmers for transplanting. But the labor is not getting work due to lack of rain. Due to which they have to spend time sitting idle.