MUMBAI, Sept. 22 -- After the crop losses on 63,58,300 acres in 30 districts of the state owing to the heavy rainfall over the last four weeks, state agriculture minister Dattatrey Bharne said the government was amenable to labelling the situation a wet drought. Farmers get more benefits than just compensation for the loss of crops when the government declares a drought-such as a waiver on electricity and crop loan payments and water taxes among other things. Opposition parties and agricultural experts have been calling for the government to announce a wet drought, and Bharne said that this was being considered receptively. "Farmers too are demanding this," he said. "There are certain norms to declare a wet drought, and CM Devendra Fadnavis and deputy chief ministers Ajit Pawar and Eknath Shinde will definitely take a call on it." Barring a few districts in North Maharashtra and Vidarbha, most have recorded crop losses, with Beed, Nanded, Solapur, Ratnagiri, Sindhudurg, Nagpur and Chandrapur being the most badly hit. The state government compensates losses at Rs.8,500 a hectare for rainfed crops, Rs.17,000 a hectare for irrigated crops and Rs.22,500 a hectare for horticulture crops. It expects the compensation amount to exceed Rs.4,200 crore. The government has already released Rs.627.39 crore as compensation for crop losses, including Rs.553.48 crore for the losses in Nanded alone....