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Members of Tamil Nadu All Farmers’ Associations Coordination Committee staged a protestation and took retired a rally present connected Tuesday pressing for alleviation and harvest security for paddy and groundnut crops that person withered owed to deficiency of rainfall successful Kamuthi, Kadaladi, and Mudukulathur taluks.
Starting from the Kamuthi Town Panchayat area, farmers marched successful a rally carrying placards containing assorted demands and concluded the rally astatine the autobus stand.
During the protest, they urged that a alleviation of ₹30,000 per acre should beryllium provided for the affected paddy crops, on with harvest security compensation.
They besides demanded that the affected areas beryllium declared arsenic nationalist catastrophe areas and each slope loans beryllium waived.
“They insisted that alleviation beryllium provided for crops damaged by chaotic animals, including chaotic boars and deer,” said Muthuramalingam, District Secretary of the Tamil Nadu All Farmers’ Associations Coordination Committee.
“We besides privation a warrant that h2o proviso should beryllium provided from Mullaiperiyar and Vaigai dams for single-crop farming successful the Kamuthi, Mudukulathur, and Kadaladi areas,” helium added.
He emphasised that a superior request progressive the long-standing plea for the Union and State governments to earmark ₹15,000 crore successful 2026–2027 budget. This backing is sought to expedite the execution of the Cauvery–Kollidam surplus h2o inaugural and the Cauvery–Vaigai–Gundar canal linking projects.
