Desilt waterbodies before onset of monsoon rains, say farmers

  The farmers of Ramanathapuram district, during the farmers’ grievance gathering present connected Friday, raised the request for desilting waterbodies and clearing seemai karuvelamtrees earlier the onset of monsoon rains.  

Madurai Veeran, president of the Vaigai Irrigation Farmers’ Association, stated that determination were encroachments successful the proviso transmission of the Sellur tank, and alleged that houses had been built encroaching upon the banks of the Vaigai Right and Left Main Canals successful Paramakudi.  

He demanded that the encroachments beryllium removed and the mixing of sewage h2o into the canals beryllium prevented. 

Balasundaramoorthy, different husbandman from Muthunaal, complained that backstage fertilizer shops successful the territory were not issuing merchantability receipts for seeds and fertilizers purchased.  

Similarly, a husbandman from the Parthibanur besides accused that nary receipt was issued for the paddy seeds purchased successful Parthibanur area. 

Ramar, an integrated husbandman from Kamuthi, responding to the chap farmers’ ailment astir mediocre maturation of paddy crops, suggested the farmers successful the drought-prone areas to extensively cultivate millets and pulses for bully profits. He besides advised them to rear livestock during non-agricultural seasons. 

Furthermore, respective different farmers requested that the banks of the irrigation tanks beryllium strengthened, the prosopis trees beryllium removed, and proscription facilities beryllium arranged for farmers. They besides requested that low-hanging electrical wires implicit farmlands beryllium fixed. 

Michael, a husbandman from Ponnakaneri, requested that Union-level kanmais larger than 50 acres beryllium merged with the Public Works Department and desilted.  

“As the shortage of funds and hold successful support were cited arsenic the large reasons by the panchayats for not taking up the desilting works, the merger would wide the money organisation problem,” helium added.  

District Collector Simranjeet Singh Kahlon, responding to farmers’ demands, instructed officials to guarantee that backstage fertilizer shops merchantability fertilisers, pesticides, and seeds astatine the prescribed prices.  

He advised the respective block-level officials successful the Agriculture Department to behaviour regular inspections and show whether receipts were being issued to farmers.  

He warned the backstage fertilizer shops that superior enactment would beryllium initiated against them if immoderate violations were reported.