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Go for short duration crop, farmers told

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PALAKKAD: The Water Resources Department here has asked the paddy farmers to cultivate short duration crops for the next second crop of paddy cultivation due to the shortage of irrigation water.

The Executive Engineer of the Water Resources Department in a press release here said that the Malampuzha Dam had only 179.2080 million cubic metres water, which will be sufficient for just 63 days of irrigation. In the Mangalam Dam water is available for only 74 days.

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