Farmers seek compensation for withered paddy

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Farmers of Maanur Union show  the withered paddy harvest  astatine  the Collectorate successful  Tirunelveli.

Farmers of Maanur Union show the withered paddy harvest astatine the Collectorate successful Tirunelveli. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

Seeking compensation for paddy that withered owed to nonaccomplishment of the northeast monsoon, farmers from Maanur national successful the territory submitted a petition to Collector R. Sukumar connected Monday.

The farmers, led by D. Abraham, territory secretary, Coordination Committee of Tamil Nadu All Farmers Associations, said the paddy growers of Maanur national had to mostly trust connected wells for watering their harvest arsenic the portion had a constricted systemised irrigation nether the Chittar irrigation system. As the northeast monsoon successful the portion saw little than mean precipitation betwixt October and December, the h2o level successful the wells successful Maanur national had gone down alarmingly.

“Since the paddy cultivated with good h2o successful Maanur union, particularly successful Keezha Pillaiyarkulam and Kaanaarpatti, is withering accelerated owed to h2o scarcity, we cannot prevention the lasting crop. Hence, the District Collector should urge to the Tamil Nasdu Government to springiness compensation for the harvest loss,” Mr. Abraham said.

A radical of women from Rajiv Gandhi Nagar adjacent Pettai submitted a petition seeking ‘patta’ for the onshore connected which they had built their huts.

The petitioners, who had built their huts connected authorities poramboke land with asbestos roof, said the gross officials, aft surveying the Rajiv Gandhi Nagar land, had recommended the issuing of ‘patta’ to lone 34 families portion the remaining 44 had been near out.

“Since each are beneath poorness enactment families, the authorities should springiness ‘patta’ for each the families surviving successful Rajiv Gandhi Nagar,” said the petitioners.

Published - February 16, 2026 06:28 p.m. IST

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