T.N. election: Even as parties promise host of schemes, farmers worried about future of agriculture

A associated family, owning astir 2 twelve acres of onshore successful a colony adjacent Sattur of Virudhunagar district, raised maize this year. The household spent astir ₹9 lakh but could gain lone ₹4 lakh, suffering a nonaccomplishment of ₹5 lakh. “Our country is acceptable lone for adust onshore farming, arsenic determination is nary scope for irrigation done immoderate stream network. Of course, determination is not overmuch rain. This is wherefore we person been raising crops specified arsenic maize, millet, oregon cotton, if possible. As an inter-crop, we sometimes opt for achromatic gram,” explains an elderly member of the family.   

Speaking of the economical viability of farming, the aged idiosyncratic says that adjacent though the household has got capable means to withstand the nonaccomplishment this year, it has decided not to transportation connected farming by itself hereafter, arsenic the elders are rather definite that the younger members of the household are not keen connected pursuing farming.