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Unexpected trouble: A cashew grower checking the cashew flowers damaged by showers in Pudukottai. PUDUKOTTAI: Cashew, grown in a vast extent in the district, has suffered extensive damage due to rains over the past few days. The growers, who were pinning their hopes on good harvest in the wake of flowering of the cash crop in late February and early March, were a worried lot, as the flowers had totally discoloured, a clear indication that the yield could be poor. Agriculturists who had taken the groves on lease would bear the brunt. The District Chairman of the Farmers’ Forum of India, G.S. Dhanapathy, said that about 80 to 90 per cent of the total 50,000 acres of cashew in the district had been damaged by the recent showers. The farmers incurred at least Rs.1,000 towards crop protection practices. Cashew in Alankudi, Gandarvakottai, Tirumayam, Kulathur and parts of Pudukottai taluk have been damaged. The annual average per acre harvest was 250 kg but this year, there will be a serious fall in yield. Even if the flowers survived, the quality of cashew would be very poor, due to poor pollination process, he said. Another horticulturist, A. Murugan, who had taken on lease about 200 acres of cashew grove at the Tamil Nadu Forest Plantation Corporation near here, said that he had incurred an expenditure of about Rs.8 lakh towards lease for this season at the farm which has about 14,000 cashew-trees, mostly of the popular high-yielding ‘VRI-III’ (named after the research station in Virudhachalam) variety. The showers had damaged almost the entire farm. He did not expect any yield this season. Officials attached to the Horticulture and Agriculture Departments have formed special teams to survey the areas. Officials said that the exact quantum of damage would be ascertained only after the waters receded. Sources said that crops such as black-gram, groundnut too had suffered extensive damage. Though paddy fields had been submerged, they would survive after the waters receded.
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