Lucknow,

15 Feb (HS): A steady rise in temperature this week in Uttar Pradesh has raised

concerns about premature wheat harvests. This has increased farmers' concerns.

If the weather remains this way, wheat production will be affected.

There

has been a continuous increase in the daily temperature this week. The possibility

of wheat crop being affected due to strong sunlight has increased, due to which

the farmers are worried. Progressive farmers Mansingh Bhadoria, Udaybhan Yadav,

Suresh Kumar, Pradeep Gupta and other farmers say that the sunlight should not

be strong till the end of February. The effect of cold should also remain, but

since last one week the cold is continuously decreasing and the day temperature

is continuously increasing. There is a strong possibility of wheat crop being

affected due to this. The increase in temperature will have an adverse effect

on wheat production and it will ripen prematurely.

On

Sunday, Technical Assistant of Agriculture Protection Unit, Ajit Kumar Shukla

also considers the increasing temperature to be fatal for the wheat crop. He

said that farmers should water the wheat crop within 15 days.

Hindusthan Samachar / Abhishek Awasthi