"Apart from damage to the potato crop, next crop would also be affected," he added. "More than rain water, it is now the extended moisture that is delaying harvest and the damage is increasing," said Tega Singh of Chak Chela village near Shahkot in Jalandhar district, who has potato crop io around 200 acre. The real extent of damage would be known only when harvesting is done," he said, adding that the delay would also impact the next crop. "By the third week of February we usually harvest more than half of the crop, but this time we could take out potatoes from just one acre that had some damage. While earlier major parts of the crop would be harvested by this time of the season, now most of the crop is still in fields.
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