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In the monthly grievance day gathering held astatine the Salem Collectorate connected Friday, farmers demanded removal of encroachments in h2o bodies.
District Collector R. Brindha Devi presided implicit the gathering and cultivation officials explained the seeds to beryllium utilized based connected availability of water. The officials said that arsenic the paddy and digit millet harvesting play started successful the district, paddy procurement centres volition beryllium opened adjacent week.
In 2025, farming activities took spot connected 2.08 lakh hectares of onshore successful the district. The mean scope of rainfall successful the territory is 1004.4 mm and successful 2025, Salem territory received 829 mm of rainfall. Yercaud received much rainfall successful 2025. Through 13 uzhavar shandies successful the district, successful December 2025 alone, 9,180.70 metric tonnes of vegetables brought by 1,031 farmers were sold and 73,936 consumers benefited, officials added.
Kumarasamy, a farmer, sought autobus work betwixt Mayampadi and Gangavalli for farmers to instrumentality their nutrient from 1 spot to another. A sago mill should beryllium established for the payment of tapioca farmers successful the district.
Another husbandman from Koonathur, Periannan, demanded upgrade of the veterinary aesculapian centre astatine Koonathur and a veterinary infirmary astatine Koot Road for 24 hours, considering the payment of farmers. Additional medicines should beryllium supplied to the veterinary units, helium said.
Rajavel from Ammapet demanded removal of encroachments for creaseless transition of h2o into Kumaragiri Lake arsenic h2o stagnated successful farmland.
Farmer Muthukumaresan thanked the Union authorities for awarding the Padma Shri grant to the erstwhile Vice-Chancellor of Tamil Nadu Agricultural University. The farmers produced 350 cardinal metric tonnes of foodgrains successful the country. So, each twelvemonth during Republic Day celebrations, the territory medication should honour astatine least 10 farmers. A separate meeting with the tapioca farmers should beryllium conducted to benignant retired the issues successful tapioca prices, Mr. Muthukumaresan added.
