{"id":3097,"date":"2025-11-05T17:27:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T17:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/?p=3097"},"modified":"2025-11-05T17:27:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T17:27:02","slug":"flood-hit-kakapora-farmers-seek-crop-loss-compensation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/2025\/11\/05\/flood-hit-kakapora-farmers-seek-crop-loss-compensation\/","title":{"rendered":"Flood-hit Kakapora farmers seek crop loss compensation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Srinagar, Nov 05:\u00a0<\/strong>Scores of farmers in the Kakapora belt of south Kashmir\u2019s Pulwama district are yet to harvest their paddy crop this season \u2013 not because they don\u2019t want to, but because the entire yield was destroyed in the September floods and is now lying rotten in water-logged fields.<\/p>\n<p>Farmers said that almost two months have passed since the floods, yet large portions of agricultural land in Kakapora are still submerged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe haven\u2019t even been able to step into our fields. The paddy has turned black and rotten. There is no point in cutting it now as it is totally useless,\u201d said Abdul Rashid, a farmer from Kakapora.<\/p>\n<p>Farmers said they were hoping that the government would announce a \u201crealistic\u201d compensation package to help them recover from the heavy losses. However, many alleged that the relief being given is extremely inadequate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of our neighbours have received just around Rs 800 per kanal. What will we do with that? This amount cannot even cover our fertiliser cost, let alone labour and other expenses,\u201d said another farmer, Shabir Ahmad.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the paddy crop takes months of labour, irrigation, and inputs \u2014 and now everything has gone to waste.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the affected farmers said they have not received even a single rupee so far. \u201cWe spent thousands of rupees on seed, pesticides and labour. The entire harvest is gone\u2026 If the government really wants to save farmers from collapse, it must revise the compensation and release it at the earliest,\u201d said Ghulam Nabi, another farmer.<\/p>\n<p>Farmers said they depend on the income from the crop to sustain their households for several months, and inadequate compensation will leave families financially broken.<\/p>\n<p>They appealed to the government to conduct a fresh assessment of losses and ensure that compensation is meaningful. \u201cCompensation should at least match the expenses of a full paddy cycle. Anything less is like adding salt to our wounds,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<p>Farmers in Kakapora urged the district administration to personally visit the affected sites so that the ground reality can be understood \u201cwith eyes, not through papers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They have sought the attention of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and Agriculture Minister Javed Ahmad Dar in this regard<strong>\u2014(KNO)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, Nov 05:\u00a0Scores of farmers in the Kakapora belt of south Kashmir\u2019s Pulwama district are yet to harvest their paddy crop this season \u2013 not because they don\u2019t want to, but because the entire yield was destroyed in the September floods and is now lying rotten in water-logged fields. Farmers said that almost two months [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3099,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097\/revisions\/3099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}