Rain spoils business of traders
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The intermittent and unseasonal rain has dealt a severe blow to the business of seasonal traders of sugarcane stalks and turmeric leaves.
The sellers usually set up temporary stalls on street corners and thickly populated areas to sell edible sugarcane, turmeric and puja items at least two days prior to Pongal.
Not many traders preferred to turn up this year due to rain battering different parts of the district for the last one week. Sugarcane was sold mainly at the vegetable markets and farmers markets. There were, however, a small section of farmers and seasonal traders, who set up stalls in thickly populated places to cash in on the demand.