Thanjavur farmers describe how soil is wet with tears
12 years, 5 months ago

Thanjavur farmers describe how soil is wet with tears

The Hindu  

Representing to the Central team that visited the district on Friday, farmers of Thanjavur district highlighted the acute water shortage they were facing and the difficulty in raising the samba crop. They met the team members at various places in Budalur and Thanjavur blocks and showed them the ploughed paddy fields where they could not do any sowing for want of water. The team comprising R.K.Gupta, Chief Engineer; T.K.Sivarajan, Director, Monitoring, Virendra Sharma, Superintending Engineer, and Pradeep Thakur, Deputy Director, Planning, all from the Central Water Commission, toured the district to ascertain the extent of area sown and requirement of water till October 15, 2012 with respect to samba cultivation. K.Baskaran, District Collector, Ganesa Marachan, Chief Engineer, PWD, Tiruchi, Z. Mohammed Yahiya, Joint Director of Agriculture, Manoharan, Superintending Engineer, PWD, Thanjavur circle, S.Suresh Kumar, District Revenue Officer, accompanied the team during the visit.

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Deccan Chronicle  

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