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Tamil Nadu
S. Vydhianathan
Inflow likely to increase further Department has adequate inputs and fertilizer stocks
CHENNAI: As the Government is expected to announce the opening of the Mettur reservoir for delta irrigation within a week, farmers in the composite Thanjavur district are busy making preliminary operations for samba cultivation. The storage in the reservoir on Tuesday was 51.269 thousand million cubic (tmc) feet as against the capacity of 93.4 tmcft. The inflow into the reservoir, which is of the order of 34,000 cusecs, is likely to increase further in the coming days as Krishna Raja Sagar is fast filling up and the Kabini reservoir is surplussing. The storage at the KRS on Tuesday was 39.847 tmcft as against the capacity of 49.45 tmcft with an inflow of 37,679 cusecs and in the case of the Kabini reservoir the storage was just 1.5 tmcft less than the capacity of 18.5 tmcft with a realisation of 27,536 cusecs. About 95 per cent of the inflow into Kabini is being let out and that is the reason for the heavy inflow at the Mettur reservoir, according to a PWD official here. Already, the State Government had informed the Madras High Court that it would consider opening the reservoir once the level reached 95 feet. With Tuesday’s level at 88.78 feet, the possibility of the water level reaching 95 feet is very bright. So farmers are busy in preparing the field for the samba crop. Normally samba is cultivated in about 4.05 lakh hectares and kuruvai in about 2.15 lakh hectares in the delta districts. A majority of farmers could not raise short-term kuruvai crop this time as water was not released from the Mettur reservoir due to poor storage. Farmers who had bore well facility alone went for kuruvai crop and about 46,000 hectares had been covered. So the area of samba coverage was likely to exceed the normal coverage this time. But farmers’ main apprehension was the availability of fertilizers. S. Ranganathan, general secretary of the Cauvery Delta Farmers Welfare Association, wanted the Government to ensure adequate supply of DAP, urea and potassium. An Agriculture Department official here said the department had adequate inputs and fertilizer stocks. To meet the fertilizer demand, the government had already moved the Centre. At present the department had a stock of 69,000 tonnes of urea, 52,000 tonnes of potash and 10,000 tonnes of DAP as against the requirement of 1.34 lakh tonnes, 78,000 tonnes of potash and 53,000 tonnes of DAP for July and August. The Centre agreed to allot 33,000 tonnes of DAP.
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