Cyclone Michaung, which made landfall near Bapatla, inflicted severe loss on farmers, particularly paddy cultivators.
Inundated farm fields, overflowing canals, distressed farmers in the fields, earthmovers clearing canals and drainages and farmers drying the paddy stocks on the roadside were the scenes that greeted people a day after the cyclone’s landfall, on Wednesday.
At Appikatla village, villagers were seen standing in knee-deep rainwater in their inundated fields, wistfully surveying their damaged crops.
