Agricultural production is expected to be seriously affected this time as farmers in most parts of Kittur Karnataka and Kalyana Karnataka regions are reluctant to take up sowing due to scanty rainfall and poor storage levels in the reservoirs.
In Yadgir district, only 2% of the sowing target has been met so far while in Kalaburagi district sowing has been completed only on 1,41,988 hectares or 16% of the target, which is 8,87,014 hectares, for the kharif season. In Chincholi taluk, sowing has been completed on 53,360 hectares, accounting for 60% of the target followed by Sedam with 49% sowing.
But some of the worst-case scenarios are in Kalaburagi taluk, where sowing has been completed on 1% of the target area, Chittapur taluk (2%), and in Kalagi and Shahabad taluks (3%).
