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The East Coast Coconut Farmers’ Association has called upon the State authorities to acceptable up a coastal saline probe institute astatine Peravurani for the payment of coconut and different harvest cultivators successful the region.
In a memorandum addressed to Chief Minister M.K. Stalin, the relation said full dissolved solids successful the groundwater had crossed the prescribed people owed to seawater intrusion successful the country and owed to alteration successful climatic conditions. Thus, the cultivation of crops specified arsenic coconut, which is the main cultivation enactment successful and astir Peravurani, paddy, groundnut, achromatic gram, sugarcane, and banana were affected.
Hence, the relation exhorted the Tamil Nadu to acceptable up a probe institute astatine Peravurani to measure the TDS successful groundwater and suggest suitable crops / modifications successful cultivation process for the sustenance of the livelihood activities of this region.
Plea for irrigation
Meanwhile, paddy farmers person urged the State authorities to supply aboveground h2o irrigation enactment to the thaladi harvest raised by them successful the Delta region. In a memorandum to the authorities, a progressive farmer, G. Srinivasan of Ganapathi Agraharam, Papanasam tahluk, Thanjavur district, pointed retired that the thaladi crop, which is successful flowering stage, is severely successful request of irrigation till February 15.
