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Market gets a large quantity of millets and pulses Traders are very busy in spot procurement THENI: With commencement of harvest, farmers in rain-fed areas, particularly pulses cultivation areas in the district, are jubilant as they get better yield this year, thanks to timely and sufficient rainfall during the cultivation season. Harvest is in full swing in almost all blocks particularly Andipatti, Theni and Perikaulam and Cumbum. The wholesale weekly market in Theni, one of the biggest centres in south Tamil Nadu, has started receiving a large quantity of millets and pulses. The market receives around 2,000 tonnes of millets and 500 to 600 tonnes of pulses a week. The arrival will increase in coming months. Huge arrivals will revive economic activities of the market, say traders. (The market had witnessed a sharp fall in trade activities owing to steady slump in arrival of cotton and drop in area of cotton cultivation.) Traders are very busy in spot procurement. They procure agriculture produces in bulk quantities from the field. Traders in neighbouring districts too camp in Theni and buy the produces in large scale, say local farmers. Area under millet cultivation is 26,250 hectares, pulses on 13,058 hectares and oilseeds on 3,252 hectares this season registering an expansion of 15 to 20 per cent of cultivation area when compared to previous year's cultivation area. “We have got 10 to 15 per cent higher than the yield in the previous year,” they add. Millets, pulses, maize, thattai payaru, (Chowlee Bean) cholam, black gram, green gram are being cultivated in a large scale in the district. Farm labourers happy The harvest season provides jobs to thousands of farm labourers. With good yield and peak harvesting season, farm owners do not hesitate to pay even higher wages to workers to complete the harvest within scheduled time. On an average, a woman worker gets around Rs.150 a day and men Rs.200. In some areas, they pay more than this amount depending on availability of labour and travel distance. With poor infrastructure facilities to dry pulses, farmers have been using rural roads and even main roads and highways massively. Spreading of dry pulses covered leaves and dry stems poses a grave threat to two-wheeler and four-wheeler drivers. It spreads dust and minute waste particles in the atmosphere blinding view of drivers. In some areas, farmers prefer rural roads near their fields instead of thrashing floors constructed by agriculture officials at their villages. Total cultivation area had been expanded to 1,03,937 hectares in the district. While paddy was raised on 17,154 hectares, horticulture crops on 37,512 hectares, said agriculture officials.
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