Sherpuri Goswami owns slightly more than a hectare of land and is a ‘small’ farmer. The landholding is not enough to meet the needs of his family of eighteen, and the 53-year-old farmer from Nadiyali village in Haryana has taken eight hectares on lease on which he has planted paddy, the most important kharif (monsoon) crop of India, a global leader in rice exports……….read more

https://india.mongabay.com/2024/08/deficient-monsoon-rainfall-in-the-indo-gangetic-plains-hits-paddy-farmers-worse-to-come-warn-climate-scientists/ 

Post Credit/Source/Courtesy: by Nidhi Jamwal on 16 August 2024 Mongabay (https://india.mongabay.com/)