Campco, growers urge Govt to control arecanut import - The Hindu BusinessLine thehindubusinessline.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thehindubusinessline.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The arecanut growers in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts are worried about losing the crop for kole roga, or fruit rot disease, following an increase in rainfall. Arecanut is cultivated on over 97,000 hectares in Dakshina Kannada and 25,481 hectares in the Udupi district. Dakshina Kannada district has received over 3,600 mm of rainfall so far. Owing to heavy pre-monsoon
Devaki was tied to a stretcher and carried to a hospital
MANGALURU: For decades now, any medical emergency in Marasanka village of Sullia taluk brings with it an added concern how to transport the patient to an ambulance first, let alone reach hospital. But viral images of a 70-year-old woman with a fracture being carried in a stretcher across a stream in full flow have driven home the reality like never before.
A day after the video made the rounds on social media, panchayat officials visited Marasanka village, about 90km from here, and vowed to step up the demand for a bridge. The villagers are not too hopeful, though.
AT LONG LAST: The bridge at Kamila – Mogra in Dakshina Kannada only needs flooring to be completed
MANGALURU: With petitions and a documentary addressed to the Prime Minister yielding no result in more than seven decades, hundreds of Kamila-Mogra villagers pooled in money and built a 50-foot-long bridge across a rivulet on their own.
The bridge on the Mogra in the district’s Sullia taluk cost them nearly Rs 1 lakh. It is wide enough to let pedestrians or bikers at a time to reach the other side, but villagers are not complaining because it has successfully solved their monsoon commuting worries for now.
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