Extreme weather events led to 8 deaths, destroyed almost 390,000 hectares of cropped area in Jan-Feb 2023
India, March 20 -- Haryana saw most damage to cropped area; Karnataka sawextreme cold events after a gap of over four decades
India saw extreme weather events on almost half of January and February 2023 - 28 out of 59 days, according to India's Atlas on Weather Disasters of the Down To Earth -Centre for Science and Environment Data Centre.
The events claimed eight lives and affected 389,127 hectares of crop area with cold waves/cold days and hailstorms. The crop area loss was reported in just January 2023. A closer look at the CSE atlas shows that the loss to crop area this year was 13 times more than in the same period last year (January-February 2022).
Northwest states most affected
The cumulative country-wise or state-wise figures ...
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