Imphal: Amid various organizations urging the authorities concerned to provide financial assistance, the Manipur government on Tuesday started a field survey assessing damages caused to livestock and poultry farms by the recent severe hailstorm across the state.
Under the directive of Dr RK Khogendrajit, Director of Veterinary and Animal Husbandry Services, many officials started spot surveys to collect damage reports for providing relief materials and compensation.
RK Khogendrajit said the hailstorm has caused severe damage to the Central Poultry Farm at Khumbong in Imphal West district.
The Khumbong farm had five sheds housing around 1,000 birds.
The survey came after the All Manipur Poultry Development Association (AMPDA) urged the government to assist the poultry farmers who have faced hardships of the recent hailstorms.
The president of the Association RK Surchandra on Tuesday took stock of the poultry farmers in the Imphal East district who have been affected by the hailstorm.
The AMPDA encountered farms with completely uprooted roofs and partly damaged by the storms during the inspection visits at the villages of Keirao, Langdum, and Angtha where thousands of poultry birds worth over Rs. 20 lakh were lost in the natural calamities on May 5.
The AMPDA president also appealed to the government to make special arrangements to provide relief and compensation to the affected poultry farmers.
Further, he asked the farmers whose poultry farms were damaged by the hailstorm to apply for relief measures and compensation from the concerned authorities.