Brewery poses threat to agriculture operations near Kumbakonam, says farmers association

A farmers’ organisation has alleged that the caller conversion of a sweetener mill successful Papanasam Taluk into a full-fledged brewery has polluted the Pazhavaru stream passing done Eragharam adjacent Kumbakonam,

According to Tamil Nadu Cauvery Farmers Protection Association caput Sundara Vimalanathan, the stream serves arsenic a drain for hundreds of acres of agriculture fields located betwixt Kabisthalam and Kumbakonam. A expanse of h2o ever remains successful the transmission arsenic assistance irrigation has been adopted astatine astir of the fields located betwixt Kabisthalam and Kumbakonam, and the drain-off h2o from the fields service arsenic a drinking h2o root for cattle.

But present with commencement of the accumulation of alcohol-based products astatine the sweetener mill, the h2o travel successful Pazhavaru has been contaminated. While the section people, who instrumentality bath oregon lavation their hands and feet successful Pazhavaru, endure from itching connected their skin, cattle enactment distant owed to the odor of chemicals, helium alleged.

Moreover, if the discharge of untreated h2o from the brewery continues, the crushed h2o root for some agriculture operations and quality depletion successful this portion whitethorn beryllium affected soon, helium said.

When contacted, the territory authorities said they had received the association’s ailment done email connected Sunday nighttime and had forwarded it to the section acrophobic for redressal connected Monday.