Bhawanipatna, Sep 6 (PTI) Farmers in Odisha's Kalahandi marched from a village to the district headquarters here on Monday to seek compensation over the drought-like situation in the region due to deficient rainfall.

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The peasants, around 100 in number, handed over a memorandum to Additional District Magistrate Sarat Chandra Srichandan, demanding that the entire Bhawanipatna block be declared drought-affected and incentives given to the affected farmers, an official said.

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According to the weekly-crop assessment by the Agriculture Department, paddy fields have been affected in non-irrigated pockets till August as 10 out of 13 blocks experienced erratic rain.

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