Crops Damaged By Hailstorm In Bundelkhand

TIKAMGARH, INDIA - MARCH 27: An old farmer Babu Rajak explaining to the tehsildar (taxation officer) the details of damage to his crops by hail near Jatara on March 17, 2016 in Tikamgarh district, India. The already serious agro-ecological crisis in Bundelkhand region has aggravated recently by untimely excessive rain and hailstorms. Many families are migrating as wheat, paddy, oilseeds and betel leaf crops are damaged from 50 to almost 100 per cent in many villages. Suicides and trauma deaths among farmers are being widely reported almost every day. In a single district, Banda, for example, about 40 such deaths were reported in about six weeks. (Photo by Mujeeb Faruqui/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)