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Farmers demand survey of crop damage

By Our Staff Reporter

PERAMBALUR, NOV. 23 . Speakers at a farmers grievances day meeting held here today urged the district administration to conduct a survey on the damage to the crops following the heavy rain in the last couple of months.

They regretted that though Thanjavur, Nagapattinam and Cuddalore districts were eligible for special concessions, two blocks in Perambalur district — Tirumanur and T. Pazhur, — which formed the tail-end basin of the Cauvery delta, remained neglected for long.

They also fixed a deadline for the assessment of damage to the crops for payment of adequate compensation, failing which they would be forced to launch an agitation.

The Collector in-charge, V. Krishnamurthy, who was in the chair, said steps would be taken to redress their grievances.

Initiating a discussion on the `step-motherly treatment' being meted out to the farmers of the T.Pazhur and Tirumanur blocks, V.Nagarathinam,, a progressive farmer from Dhadampettai in T.Pazhur, said vast acres of groundnut and other crops had been damaged due to the discharge of waters from the Suthamalli dam. The Ariyalur taluk secretary of the Tamil Nadu Vivasayigal Sangam, P.Pitchai Pillai, said steps should be taken for the construction of the Marudaiyar reservoir, to check the damage to crops.

A number of farmers said that non-availability of fertiliser and urea hindered agricultural operations in several parts of the district. This, they said, had resulted in the hike in the prices of these basal nutrients. They urged the district administration to initiate effective an action against the hoarding of the fertilisers. Steps should also be taken for reviving primary agricultural cooperative banks which had become defunct for ensuring supply of urea and fertilisers.

Officials replied an indent for additional supply of fertilisers had been submitted to the State government. Supply would ease within a few days. Surprise raids had been conducted and three fertiliser shops had been sealed.

The State secretary of the Tamizhaga Vivasayigal Sangam, R. Raja Chidambaram, pleaded for sanction of crop loans to farmers.

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