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Farmers organisations crossed the Cauvery delta person voiced beardown dissatisfaction with the ongoing GPS-based harvest nonaccomplishment assessment, arguing that the integer method is impractical successful the tract and risks under-reporting of the extended harm caused by Cyclone Ditwah.
Heavy rainfall inundated galore acres of paddy crossed the delta, prompting the State authorities to statesman harm enumeration done a mobile exertion that relies connected GPS tagging and husbandman photographs. Farmers accidental the process does not bespeak crushed realities.
According to Sundara Vimal Nathan, secretary, Tamil Nadu Cauvery Farmers’ Protection Federation, the enumeration method indispensable beryllium simplified owed to applicable difficulties connected the ground. Tamil Nadu MPs indispensable property the Union authorities to state the cyclone’s interaction a earthy calamity. Losses included cattle deaths, collapsed structures and destroyed crops.
“State compensation unsocial volition beryllium insufficient. Without Central notification, farmers cannot entree enactment nether the PM Fasal Bima Yojana,” helium added.
Arupathy Kalyanam, wide secretary, Federation of Farmers Associations, said astir crops younger than 2 months had perished. “Of the 22 acres I sowed, 18 acres were severely damaged. The integer survey indispensable beryllium done successful a due manner. Officials are restricting the country owed to pressure,” helium alleged, adding that input subsidies could not substitute existent relief.
In Nagapattinam, members of the Tamil Nadu Farmers Protection Association staged a sit-in astatine the Collectorate connected Wednesday, carrying damaged paddy bundles to item their losses .
State argumentation helping lawman caput S.R. Tamil Selvan said the integer survey was imaginable lone adjacent accessible roads, portion interior fields lacked attack paths. Poor net connectivity further hindered uploads.
He demanded afloat compensation for wholly damaged crops.
