Ryots seek ‘corpus fund’ to tackle monsoon
Deccan ChronicleOOTY: While the unprecedented heavy rains in August wrecked havoc on farm fields, that is keeping the farmers in tears, farmers in the hills are pleading for special monsoon package to compensate the loss of crops and farmers economy due to SW rains in the Nilgiris. The president of the Hill District Small Farmers Welfare Association, Thumboor I. Bhojan, said that whenever the SW monsoon rains are heavy, the damage done to the vegetable fields are beyond the limit. Unfortunately, the rains damaged them, thus making the farmers to incur heavy loss and shed tears over it. He further added that the government here afterwards should create a corpus fund, meant for crop damage during SW and NE monsoon seasons in the Nilgiris to ensure that the farmers were suitably compensated during the natural catastrophe.
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