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At heart, I know that Kumirmari is reducing in size, eroding away part by part. I don’t know what will happen to the Sundarbans in the next 10-20 years,” says Soma Mondal, 30, a resident of the world’s largest delta. While her relatives have migrated to other parts of India, Soma, married with three kids, stayed on in the Sundarbans. But things have been changing rapidly for

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Prices should match rising cost: Cauvery S. Dhanapalan

Delta farmers apprehensive of farm laws, Mettur-Sarabanga project Alongside the protest against the three new farm laws, issues concerning agriculture have dominated the political discourse in Tamil Nadu as the government came up with one announcement after another in the run-up to the Assembly election. Although measures such as loan waiver and compensation for crop damage provide succour to farmers, many in the Cauvery delta region believe the agrarian crisis runs deeper. Vagaries of monsoon and the uncertain flow in the Cauvery, labour shortage and rising wages, spiralling cultivation costs and poor returns have all worn down the farmers. “The foremost concern is that returns do not match production cost be it of paddy, sugar cane, cotton or any other crop,” says Cauvery S. Dhanapalan, general secretary of the Cauvery Farmers Protection Association.