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The caller rains person damaged paddy raised connected 51 hectares and plantain connected 42 hectares, District Collector R. Sukumar has said.
Chairing the farmers’ grievances redressal gathering held astatine the Collectorate connected Friday, Dr. Sukumar said the district, aft signaling 50.99% shortage rainfall during September, had received 19.85% excess rainfall successful October (till October 23) arsenic 198.95 mm precipitation against the mean rainfall of 166 mm during this month. Consequently, Papanasam and Manimuthar dams, which determine connected the cultivation operations of Tirunelveli and Thoothukudi districts, person capable retention of h2o for the upcoming ‘pisanam’ paddy season.
Hence, the cultivation of assorted cultivation and horticultural crops including paddy, banana and vegetables had been taken-up connected 25,198 hectares during this twelvemonth since January last. Importantly, country of cultivation of paddy has accrued by 498 hectares than past twelvemonth and hence 21,177.92 tonnes of paddy has been procured truthful acold from the farmers during the ‘kar’ play done the 37 nonstop paddy procurement centres successful the district.
The Collector informed that the caller rains had affected paddy cultivated connected 51 acres - Palayamkottai (24 hectare), Kalakkad (10.80 hectare), Ambasamudram (0.20 hectare), Maanur (1 hectare) and Valliyoor (15.26 hectare) - and plantain connected 42.85 hectare successful Ambasamudram and Cheranmahadevi blocks.
“The agriculture, horticulture and gross officials person been instructed to implicit the associated survey and taxable the study instantly truthful that the affected farmers volition beryllium fixed owed compensation astatine the earliest,” Dr. Sukumar said.
While informing that 27,687 beneficiaries of Prime Minister’s Kisan Scheme and 13,038 different farmers of the territory had truthful acold uploaded their details and the accusation astir their holdings for availing the assistances from the governments, the Collector urged the remaining 6,868 farmers to upload the details astatine the earliest.
“Since this registration has been made mandatory for getting the payment assistances being extended to the farmers, the beneficiaries should upload these accusation immediately,” helium appealed.
Dr. Sukumar said harvest security benefits for achromatic gram (₹15.74 crore), greenish gram (₹5.54 lakh) and paddy (₹1.13 crore) had been disbursed and asked the farmers to insure achromatic gram, greenish gram, maize, paddy, plantain and okra by paying the prescribed premium earlier the stipulated deadlines.
The officials informed that 167 agriculture-related petitions and 54 non-agriculture-related petitions were received during the farmers’ grievances redressal gathering held successful September and owed replies fixed to each 221 petitions.
Dr. Sukumar handed implicit agriculture inputs to the farmers.
District Revenue Officer M. Suganya, Deputy Director of Kalakkad – Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve’s Ambasamudram Division Srikanth and District Forest Officer Ilango were present.
