 "Farm labourers making bunches of paddy saplings to plant at a field on the outskirts of Guwahati | Photo: PTI")
The sudden increase in rainfall intensity over north and central parts of the country in the last few days could impact final yield of paddy in those fields where 'lodging' has taken place as the rains that came at the fag-end of the southwest monsoon season were also accompanied by strong winds, farm scientists and experts said.
Lodging is the bending over of crops, mainly cereals, near the ground level that makes them difficult to harvest and leads to lower yields. Lodging mainly occurs when rains are accompanied by heavy winds in excess of 25 kilometres per hour.
However, the
