Bicholim: Gusty winds and heavy rain on Tuesday evening hit horticulturists in Bicholim taluka with acute crop loss. Plantations, especially at Mayem village, were destroyed. Deepak Kinalkar, a farmer, said that the untimely rain wrecked chilli plantations and harmed banana and other plantations. “Our banana plantation, which was due to bear fruit in a few days, was devastated by the winds,” said a Krishnanagar farmer.