State farmers who could not plant their crop(s) due to flood would also be provided financial assistance from the .
CMNitish Kumar asked all the district magistrates (DMs) and theagriculture departmentofficials to consider non-planting of crops due to flood as the case of crop loss and provide adequate assistance to such farmers.
Nitish asked the officials of Disaster Management department (DMD), Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture department and the DMs to do proper panchayat-wise assessment of crop losses in the next three to four days, so that all affected farmers could be provided financial assistance.
A Population of 69.63 lakh in altogether 26 districts has so far been affected by flood in Bihar. The number of affected families is 16.60 lakh. All possible help is being provided to these families,