THANJAVUR The Thanjavur District Cauvery Farmers Protection Association has made an appeal to the district administration to save narikurava families in Thanjavur district from starving during the cur
Delta farmers await announcement on water release
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Delta farmers, who reaped a rich harvest of
kuruvai crop last year, expect the State government to announce or at least indicate the possible date of opening of the shutters of Stanley Reservoir for release of water for irrigation in view of sufficient storage.
Last year, they took up cultivation of
kuruvai crop with confidence after a gap of nearly nine years since the then State government made an official announcement during the third week of May that the shutters of Mettur Dam would be lifted on the scheduled date of June 12.
Delta farmers buoyed by Minister’s assessment of kuruvai crop coverage
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Paddy cultivation is set for a brisk start in Thanjavur and Thiruvarur districts, the core delta region, in the wake of the hope expressed by Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Minister, M. R. K. Panneerselvam that the normal extent of three lakh acres could be covered for kuruvai crop State-wide.
According to official sources, normally 1,35,000 hectares in seven out of 12 districts in delta region would be brought under the kuruvai crop with Thanjavur-Tiruvarur districts accounting for 55 to 60 per cent of the cultivable area.
Farmers, particularly those having their landholdings in old Cauvery delta areas such as Thirukattupalli, Thiruvaiyaru, Kumbakonam and Aduthurai in Thanjavur district and Kudavasal, Nannilam and Mannargudi in Tiruvarur district enjoy the additional benefit of groundwater irrigation facility and usually stick on to the customary dates for kuruvai
Include our demands in election manifestos, urge farmers
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The Thanjavur District Cauvery Farmers Protection Association has called upon political parties to consider their demands and include them in their election manifestos.
The association convened a meeting of farmers in this regard at Kumbakonam last week and listed out 15 demands/requirements that could be considered for inclusion in the election manifestos to be released by the political parties during the forthcoming elections.
They urged the political parties to include an assurance that they, if elected to power, would pass a resolution in the floor of the Assembly demanding unconditional repealing of the three new farm laws and the Electricity Amendment Bill.
Farmers question foundation laying venue of irrigation project
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It has been scheduled to be held at Kunnathur in Pudukottai district
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It has been scheduled to be held at Kunnathur in Pudukottai district
Farmers of the Cauvery river sub-basin in the delta region are a disappointed lot that the inauguration of a mega project of expansion, renovation and modernisation of the irrigation system in their region was scheduled for Sunday not in their own district but a neighbouring one.
“We felt happy that, at last, our basin has attracted the attention of policymakers and administrators after several years when the ₹3,384-crore project was announced in August last by Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami during his COVID-19 inspection visits to the delta districts. But now we feel belittled on hearing that the inauguration of the mega project is going to be held along with the launching of the Cauvery-Vaigai-Gundar project at Kunnathur in Pudukottai