Kuruvai season may see coverage of 3 lakh acres this year too
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Despite reviews of rural areas of the State registering a quantity of COVID-19 circumstances, the federal government is hopeful of getting the conventional extent of three lakh acres coated for paddy within the Cauvery delta in the course of the Kuruvai cultivation season.
Conscious of the scarcity of labour for farm work, M.R.K. Panneerselvam, Minister for Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare, instructed The Puucho that attaining the coverage wouldn’t be a problem in view of growing mechanisation. “These days, machines are used for transplanting seedlings which was once a labour intensive activity,” the Minister identified, including that these, having borewells, had began utilizing the farm work.
Matter of livelihood
Observing that “it is a matter of livelihood” for farmers of the delta to boost paddy in the course of the season, the Minister stated the farm work had begun, adhering to the federal government’s norms on private distancing. “We are fine-tuning the guidelines too,” Mr Panneerselvam added.
As of now, transplantation has been accomplished for an extent of 55,000 acres. As nursery has been accomplished for 1,800 acres, this will take care of 18,000 acres for transplantation.
On Sunday, Water Resources Minister Duraimurugan, after chairing a consultative assembly with farmers in Thanjavur, stated Chief Minister M.K. Stalin would take a name on opening the Mettur dam for irrigation on the scheduled date of June 12.
On Monday, the water degree of the dam stood at 97.82 ft (full degree: 120 ft) with the storage being 62.052 thousand million cubic ft (capability: 93.47 tmc ft). Between June 1 final year and May 12 this year, the State’s realisation of Cauvery water was round 208 tmc ft, an extra of 32.5 tmc ft.
A perusal of the info of the paddy coverage within the delta and the opening of the Mettur dam within the final 10 years reveals that the coverage was achieved in 8 out of 10 years, utilizing groundwater basically, because the dam was opened in June solely twice – 2011 and 2020.
In the remaining eight years, the discharge of water commenced as soon as in July; on 4 events in August; twice in September and as soon as in October.
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