Lemon yield dips sharply to haunt growers even as price skyrockets to ₹250 per kg

Even arsenic 1 kilogram of citrus is being sold astatine ₹250 successful the unfastened marketplace and anyplace betwixt ₹130 and ₹140 successful the Farmers’ Markets, astir apt the highest terms successful decades, the mediocre output owed to prolonged scorching summertime haunts the growers of Puliyangudi and the traders arsenic well.

The Puliyangudi Lemon Market, known for supplying prime lemons to assorted parts of Tamil Nadu and adjacent to a fewer neighbouring States, utilized to get 150 to 200 tonnes of citrus mundane from the growers of Kadayanallur, Chokkampatti, Puliyangudi, Vasudevanallur, Sankarankovil and surrounding areas. The farmers person to trust upon good h2o oregon heavy borewell h2o for nourishing their citrus trees being grown connected implicit 1,500 acres successful this country wherever determination is nary river. These farmers would get h2o from the Karuppanadhi and Adavinainar dams lone erstwhile dense downpour brings copious influx of h2o to these 2 reservoirs.