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Around 2,500 acres of agricultural land in Khangabok have reportedly submerged due to surplus water from the Thambalngangbi canal in Khangabok, a release stated.
Fields destroyed due to construction works, villagers forced to sell vegetables
IFP Editorial: The granaries of the poor farmers are empty and nothing to show for the hard labour they had put in the paddy fields. The situation has reached such a predicament that, there are no takers for agriculture land up for sale.
Minister Khashim Vashum deputes team to visit the affected farmers and take stock of the situation.
Farmers' hope of bumper harvest has been devastated by the sudden flash flood that hit Chingjaroi village in Ukhrul district.
The Irabot Foundation Manipur has urged the Manipur government to set up a probe committee on irrigation facilities in the state.
The bank of the Nambul river has reportedly been breached at Samurou area Thursday afternoon, locals said.
IFP Editorial: Considering the increase in population and changing nature of waste material, it is necessary to widen the drains by asking people to part with portions of land for a greater cause.
The swelling river has reportedly inundated more than 15 acres of paddy fields in Gelnal village.
'Since the proposed construction of NSU was moved to Koutruk, the members of the 44 Yaithibi Loukol Farmers and Landowners Development Association appealed to the authorities concerned to return the selling price of the land since the construction of NSU has been withdrawn by the Union sports minister'..
The 44-Yaithibi Loukol Farmers and Land Owners Development Association asked why Conservation of paddy land and wetlands Act 2014 has not been implemented at 44-Yaithibi Loukol.
MLA Heikham Dingo said culprits involved in the burning down of paddy fields will be punished
Considering the present condition of the paddy fields which have become dried and cracked due to insufficient rainfall, the farmers would not be able to harvest any rice this year, a farmer said.
Since the sports university had been shifted to Koutruk, the farmers of Yaithibi Loukon were demanding from the state government that their lands and paddy fields be returned to the owners, Federation of Haomee stated in a release.
Amid the pandemic, village Charoi Pandongba has been facing attacks by caterpillar-like insects for the last two to three months, villagers say.
IFM secretary general Gopen Luwang said farmers are facing natural calamities.
"The construction of a multipurpose dam by the department of Minor Irrigation at Naharup Loukol is the major factor behind the destruction of the paddy field."
