7 months ago
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Thoothukudi territory medication has issued an advisory to farmers to support their crops that were submerged during the caller dense rainfall caused by cyclone “Ditwah.”
According to an archetypal study 92 acres of paddy cultivated during the samba play and 104 acres of cultivation lands nether different crops person been submerged owed to the rainfall successful Thoothukudi district, stated the property release.
It further noted that arsenic per the acquisition of Chief Minister M. K. Stalin, flood monitoring teams person been formed successful the territory and artifact levels to show the harm caused to the cultivation lands. Agriculture section officials successful coordination with the gross department, volition inspect the harm and due measures volition beryllium taken to contented alleviation funds for the cultivation fields exceeding 33% of damage.
Farmers person been advised to drain the excess h2o accumulated astir the cultivated crops and to refrain from applying fertilizers, pesticides and weedicide for the crops, during this period.
With the northeast monsoon expected to proceed till December end, farmers are urged to regularly study harvest harm to block-level cultivation officers, get due guidance and instrumentality indispensable harvest extortion measures.
