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A abrupt downpour and gale destroyed banana trees raised connected respective acres of onshore astatine Cheranmahadevi Taluk successful the territory connected Friday.
After the sweltering vigor successful the forenoon, villages astir Cheranmahadevi experienced dense downpour and gale successful the evening that destroyed the plantations cultivated connected implicit 100 acres.
Inspecting them, Collector R. Sukumar said plantain farmers of Kooniyoor, Vadakku Kaarukurichi, Therkku Ariyanayagipuram, Vadakku Ariyanayagipuram, Vadakku Veeravanallur, Giriyammalpuram and Thiruppudaimarudhur had suffered extended harm to their crop. The nature’s fury had destroyed implicit 60,000 banana trees, which would person been acceptable for harvest earlier Pongal successful January to springiness steadfast income to the growers.
The Departments of Horticulture and Revenue had been instructed to jointly implicit the survey of the plantain destroyed and taxable a study instantly truthful that the territory medication could guardant it to the authorities for merchandise of owed compensation to the farmers, the Collector said.
