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With the Mettur dam not opened connected the scheduled day of June 12 due to the fact that of insufficient storage, farmers successful the Cauvery delta districts are successful a quandary connected whether to spell successful for kuruvai cultivation oregon not this season.
Their worries are compounded arsenic meteorological forecasts person not revealed a wide representation astir the monsoon.
A conception of delta farmers presumption the “kuruvai package” announcement by the State authorities arsenic a ray of anticipation to tide implicit fiscal situation the existent concern whitethorn propulsion up aft the kuruvai season, according to Sethuraman of Needamangalam, a progressive farmer.
Overcome with a consciousness of trepidation astir the prospects of kuruvai cultivation, helium said respective farmers look to person decided to skip kuruvai this play and instrumentality up samba and summertime harvest cultivation.
For instance, successful Tiruvarur territory wherever the officials person fixed a people of astir 60,000 hectares of kuruvai cultivation this season, truthful acold the process had been taken up connected 7,750 hectares only, helium said.
Farmers associations person urged the State authorities to property the Centre to nonstop the Cauvery Water Management Authority to guarantee that the Karnataka released the h2o without neglect oregon excuses citing upwind forecasts.
Farmers protest
Meanwhile, a radical of farmers, led by Cauvery Dhanapalan, president, Tamil Nadu Vivasaya Sangangalin Kootiyakkam, staged a objection astatine the Odampokki River regulator successful Nagapattinam district, expressing interest implicit kuruvai cultivation being deed for privation of Cauvery water.
Mr. Dhanapalan said a ample fig of tiny and marginal farmers and workplace labourers volition beryllium deed hard owed to the nonaccomplishment of kuruvai play and called upon the State authorities to authorisation compensation for them. They demanded effectual steps to halt the Karnataka determination to physique a dam crossed the Cauvery astatine Mekedatu.
