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Pre-season preparatory works person begun astatine astir of the brackish pans successful Thoothukudi district, up of brackish accumulation for the existent year.
The preparatory enactment includes levelling and cleaning, repairing of bunds, ungraded compaction and different related works.
M. P. Dileep, a brackish shaper from Thoothukudi said that preparatory works astatine the brackish pans person commenced aft Pongal holidays astatine astir of the places, with manufacturers preparing to statesman accumulation by 2nd week of February.
He added that the archetypal harvest is usually of mediocre quality, portion better-quality brackish volition commencement to beryllium obtained from the 3rd crop, typically betwixt April and May.
In caller years, unseasonal rainfall and dense downpour has evidently affected the brackish accumulation successful Thoothukudi. A fewer years agone the yearly brackish accumulation was astatine 25 lakh tonnes successful the district. However, past twelvemonth the accumulation crossed lone 17 lakh tonnes by the mid-October.
Highlighting that lone intermediate rainfall betwixt April and May plays a important relation successful wide accumulation of the twelvemonth successful the district, Mr. Dileep noted, “This twelvemonth we (manufacturers) person started the preparatory works, with the anticipation that intermediate rainfall volition not adversely impact the production.”
Speaking connected labour wages, helium said that it has been 2 years since the labourers wages were past revised and that a wage hike volition beryllium implemented this twelvemonth aft April, pursuing discussions betwixt manufactures and labour associations.
