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Reduced earning: Farmers harvesting paddy at Kadayakudi village near Pudukottai on Sunday. PUDUKOTTAI: Last month’s heavy rain followed by neck blast disease has resulted in a fall in the yield of paddy, particularly BPT-5204. Farmers in and around Kadayakudi village near here said that prior to the onset of the monsoon, they had irrigated the fields using bore-wells. Their hopes on a higher yield this season had been belied due to the heavy rain. Paddy-growers who cultivated the variety, known as ‘culture variety’ among the farmers, have bore the brunt of the floods followed by neck blast, they said. The farmers, S. Manikandan (31) and K. Chelliah (40) of Kadayakudi, pointed out that they had sown the variety about five months ago. Irrigating the fields using the bore-wells, they pinned their hope for a higher yield. The serious water-logging and inundation of fields a few weeks before its harvest, has caused a heavy damage to the crop. Farmers reported a yield of only 20 bags from the total five acres of the variety, against the normal yield of about 40 bags an acre. Agriculture Department officials said that the farmers have been raising the variety, which is more susceptible to the disease. In the absence of any disease, the crop gave attractive returns for the produce. Officials said the outbreak of the disease was more due to the fall in temperature than the rain. Water inadequate for late ‘samba’The prospect of the late samba in the Kallanai Kaalvai was also bleak, due to inadequate availability of irrigational water. The Pudukottai District president of the Federation of the Kallanai Kaalvai Associations, A. Ramasamy, said that the standing late samba in villages in and around Alankudi, Aranthangi, Avudaiyarkovil, Manamelkudi (all in Pudukottai district) and parts of Thanjavur and Peravurani (in Thanjavur district) was languishing following poor realisation of the water being discharged from the Grand Anicut. He urged the district administration to ensure additional release of water to save the late samba.
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