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Crop loss during 2017-2019
February 15 , 2021
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- India has suffered a huge crop loss on 18.176 million hectares of land.
- It amounts to roughly 8.5 per cent of the total gross cropped area.
- The crop loss occurred due to floods in the year 2017 to 2019.
- Out of the losses, around 10.68 million hectares of land was affected in 2019 alone.
- As per the data, flood-prone states of Bihar, Assam and Uttar Pradesh observed the extreme floods.
- Extreme floods were also witnessed in Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan.
- Madhya Pradesh was the hardest-hit in all the states.
- These states had zero crop loss in 2017 and 2018.
- But in 2019, it suffered the highest loss of 6.047 million hectares of land.
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