write a letter to deputy commissioner of your district to assess the losses caused by hail storm
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ForewordIndian agriculture continues to be vulnerable to weather vagaries despite self-sufficiencyin food grain production. Climate change and increased extreme weather events in recent decadesas well as uncertainty in prediction of those events further add to the woes of the farmers causingwidespread losses of agricultural output. Thus, it is of paramount importance to predict our climatebetter and adopt climate smart management practices for ensuring food security. Researchinitiatives on various aspects of crop management in the event of unfavourable extreme weatherevents or post- disaster crop management have necessitated the need of effective and fool proofcontingency plans specifically for droughts and waterlogging situations. Amongst weather hazards,hailstorms cause a great damage to standing crops even though these occur for a very shortduration. Nevertheless, little information exists on the management of various aspects of thesehails. The recent occurrence of unusually widespread and untimely hailstorms that affected cropsin a number of states in India and particularly Maharashtra triggered an imperative need of acomprehensive document covering all aspects of hail. The present document is an attempt in thisdirection that includes information on the mechanisms behind hail formation, current status of hailforecasting technologies, hail vulnerable areas of the world, frequency of hail occurrence, climatechange scenarios of hailstorm occurrence, extent of damage in the state of Maharashtra andappropriate pre- and post- hail management practices. Apart from the crop specific managementrecommendations, this bulletin also presents results from some of the original research on post hailmanagement interventions and crop recovery experiments initiated at the NIASM, Baramati