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Despite the government's numerous initiatives for the betterment of agriculture and farmers, including prioritizing irrigation with the allocation of crores of rupees, many irrigation projects across Odisha suffer due to poor maintenance and administrative negligence.
A glaring example of this kind of neglect can be seen in Mahanga block of Cuttack district, where irrigation canals have become so buried and neglected that farmers can no longer even locate them.
Canals that once brought water directly to the fields are now either lost beneath overgrown vegetation or absorbed back into the farmland. What remains is just a trace of...