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A time of aggravated rainfall connected Monday triggered by Cyclone Ditwah caused wide harm crossed Thanjavur district, with 80 houses collapsing and 65 caput of cattle dead, according to territory authorities.
Continunuous rainfall drenched the territory for the past 3 days disrupting life. Though skies cleared connected Saturday morning, airy showers resumed successful the afternoon. Officials said lasting paddy crops connected astir 15,000 acres were inundated portion h2o is yet to drain from different 2,000 acres, leaving the crops astatine hazard of rotting. Horticulture crops implicit 200 acres person been affected.
On a azygous day, 46 huts and 34 factual houses collapsed successful dense rain. There were nary casualties.
Farmers successful respective pockets stay disquieted arsenic waterlogging had severely impacted samba and thaladi crops. At Athinampattu, adjacent Thanjavur, astir 100 acres of thaladi paddy stay submerged due to the fact that of the lack of due drainage. Farmers astatine Nanjikkottai, Vallundampattu, and Athinampattu, who cultivated paddy utilizing borewells, fearfulness harvest nonaccomplishment arsenic h2o had pooled up to a extent of 2 feet.
“Because determination is nary drainage, the rainwater has not drained adjacent aft 2 days,” said Ramalingam, a husbandman from Athinampattu. To facilitate faster drainage, h2o discharge from the Cauvery, Vennaru, and Grand Anicut canals — temporarily released for irrigation — had been reduced.
In the 24 hours ending 8.30 a.m. Saturday, Ayyampettai recorded the highest rainfall with 10 mm, followed by Thanjavur (9 mm), Manjalaru (5 mm), Madukkur (5 mm), Kurungulam (5 mm) and respective different stations with airy showers.
