They fixed a date to stop us from pumping groundwater too early in the summer, when the rains are still far away. It helped a little, but the water table keeps falling because we are still growing paddy. For us, it was the MARKET that forced us into paddy decades ago, telling us it was the only profitable crop. Now my borewell coughs like an old man, and I regret ever switching from our traditional maize and pulses. That date is just a BAND-AID on a deep wound.
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