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Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu today directed payment of compensation to farmers whose crops have been damaged in the recent unseasonal rains.
The officials were asked to complete damage estimates immediately and pay compensation by this month end.
Thirteen deaths were reported from six districts due to unseasonal rains and 11,334 hectares of crop area was damaged. Paddy was damaged in 4,562 hectares, chillies in 2,002 hectares, mango in 1,478 hectares, banana in 550 hectares, vegetables in 630 hectares and other crops like sesamum, cotton and groundnut were also affected.
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