A dimension within Heatwave Hardships
Farming challenges due to crop diseases and scarcity of water and food resources.
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AI-synthesised pieces woven from many community voices on this theme. They may contain errors or interpretation — they're a reflection of the stories, not a record of fact.
Across Kandhamal, farmers yearn to cultivate more, especially a vital second crop, but are held back by a persistent lack of seeds and essential funds.
Residents of Maradipanga voice their daily struggles and collective aspirations for government assistance to cultivate better livelihoods, restore their environment, and build a more developed future.
Even without irrigation, our traditional seeds and old farming methods ensure our crops ripen, providing food for our homes.
In rural Mandla, communities grapple with the everyday reality of distant governance and essential services that remain out of reach, despite repeated pleas.
Our farming activities are affected by a lack of water.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Adaba, Gajapati, Odisha
There is a borewell problem in our village. Due to the unavailability of water easily in the fields, we are unable to grow a second crop.
— Amar Lal Dhurwey
Due to the lack of soil moisture in our village, we are facing difficulty in cultivating a second crop.
— Amar Lal Dhurwey · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
They do farming without water, but now it has decreased, it doesn't ripen.
— Kachala Choudhary
The environment was good before, now it doesn't rain on time, due to which farming is not good.
— Upendra Kumar Mahananda
Due to forests being destroyed day by day and the lack of proper rainfall, agriculture is not doing well.
— Suna Majhi
To promote farming, due to the lack of irrigation facilities here, we are unable to grow a second crop well.
— Ram Maravi · Dindori, Madhya Pradesh
It feels to me that in the coming times, farming remained very difficult, our work got a bit stalled, and now we can't do it as we understood previously.
— Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
I feel that in the coming times, farming has remained very difficult, from one hardship to another. Our work has somewhat stalled, and we cannot do it anymore. It seems it was understood earlier.
— Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
In the present era, due to unseasonal weather, the yield of agricultural crops has decreased.
— Padmalochan Majhi · Ratachua, Rayagada, Odisha
There is a water shortage in our Odisha. If this is not resolved, farming will not be good.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Adaba, Gajapati, Odisha
We have a water shortage even for double cropping. Due to this, we are using our own seed paddy and doing less threshing, as we have sown the paddy in the field.
— Padmini Bhoi · SKIP NO LOCATION
We are unable to cultivate a second crop in our fields due to water problems.
— Amar Lal Dhurwey · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
Hello, regarding the summer, the sun is very strong. But since we are in the countryside, we don't feel it much because we work in the village. It's a little, a little more. But because we are farmers, we don't feel it. But I don't know how you people in town are coping, poor things. The sun is indeed very strong this year. I don't know if it will stay like this or how it will be. But we ourselves are drinking a lot of water in the countryside. But even if we farm like that, our farming is not yielding much. The yield is very low. Half of the harvest is wasted due to yellow disease. I don't know how we are going to cope.
— Divagar N · Parakkalur AD Street, Salem, Tamil Nadu
Due to deforestation, we are unable to cultivate properly. It is not raining.
— Karunakar Uthansing · Dhusarigan, Kandhamal, Odisha
Water provision is necessary for summer cultivation. However, even with water provision for farming, it is not getting better.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Mohana, Gajapati, Odisha
There is a lack of new technology, good seeds, and irrigation. We do farming, but the cost is high and the profit is low.
— VEER SINGH SIJUI · Seraikela-Kharsawan, Jharkhand
The problem is the borewell. We are unable to cultivate a second crop due to lack of water in our fields. So, the problem is the borewell.
— Amar Lal Dhurwey
We will cultivate the land we have. We will plough and prepare the field. There is a slight problem with water. That place is dry and our crops are also dry.
— pinku sunani · Litisargi, Nuapada, Odisha
There is a borewell problem in our village, due to which farmers are unable to cultivate both crops, so the problem is with the borewell.
— Amar Lal Dhurwey · SKIP NO LOCATION
It feels to me that in the coming time, farming remained very difficult, and our work got a bit stalled. Now we cannot do it; we realized this earlier.
— Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
There is a shortage of water for our agricultural work. If water is properly managed, agricultural work can improve.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha
Due to excessive deforestation, we specifically have a shortage of water. Also, there is a significant shortage of food and fruits.
— Karunakar Uthansing · Maradipanga, Kandhamal, Odisha
Farming is done without irrigation, but in years with low rainfall, there is no good harvest and the seeds also do not ripen.
— Upendra Kumar Mahananda
It is very difficult to do farming and clean the house. We are not getting any manure. Therefore, we are forced to use fertilizer. Memnima Sundar Samita
— Upendra Kumar Mahananda
There is a shortage of water for farming in our village. If proper arrangements are made, farming activities will improve.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha
Our village has a severe water problem, which causes us a lot of trouble. We do get water now, but in the summer season, we struggle for water.
— Ram Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
There is a shortage of water for farming in our village. If proper arrangements are made for this, farming can be done.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha
In our village, there is a shortage of water for farming. If some solution is made for this, farming can improve.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK
In this village, the forest has been damaged a bit more than before this time. Herbs cannot be collected, and because of that, we...
— Padmini Bhoi
There is a borewell problem in the village fields for farmers.
— Amar Lal Dhurwey
There is a water problem in our village.
— Sonmati · Ormaura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
There is a water problem in our village.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK
There is a water problem in our village. It has not reached every house. And there is also a road problem, due to which people have to face a lot of difficulties.
— Rupesh Maravi · Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh
There is a water problem
— Sonmati · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We are being provided facilities due to lack of irrigation for our agricultural land.
— Laba Kumar sabar · Bada Baridi, Rayagada, Odisha
We have a water problem here
— Sunita Kumari · Ormaura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
In our village, there is a water problem for agriculture. If this is resolved, farming activities will improve.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK
Yes, we cultivate a second crop without water, we cultivate green gram every year, and sometimes if it's very hot, it also gets damaged. It doesn't yield at all.
— Ulapi Sahu · Patnāgarh, Balangir, Odisha
Farming without water is no longer possible, the land has become hard.
— Kachala Choudhary
The voices in this theme were gathered by these organisations through their community reports.
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