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Unseasonal rain damaged all major crops in Kanpur, India. Unseasonal rain and hailstorms have hit standing crops across North and West India. Officials have estimated major damage to the rabi harvest. Maharashtra's onion crop is also badly hit even as the Met department has warned of more rainfall. A majority of the damage has occurred in the Western Part of Maharashtra where crops worth Rs 1000 crore has been damaged. Rains have also hit 40,000 hectares of crop, 17,000 in Yavatmal district alone. Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis is likely to make a statement in the state Assembly on Monday. "This is unfortunate. The state government will assist the affected farmers in anyway we can. The unseasonal rainfall and hailstorms just show how diverse the effect of global warming has b