Pattukottai coconut farmers yet to recover from the ravages of Cyclone Gaja

Idyllic and serene, the Pattukottai Assembly Constituency has been described arsenic the coconut loop of the Cauvery delta region.

Until immoderate decades ago, paddy cultivation flourished successful the region. It gradually gave mode to coconut cultivation connected ample tracts of onshore owed to the prolonged Cauvery h2o quality and neglect of respective h2o bodies. Though the Grand Anicut Canal served arsenic the lifeline for irrigation, uncertainty implicit merchandise of capable h2o done the canal had a telling effect connected agriculture enactment and, hence, farmers turned their oculus towards coconut-growing.