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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | In Tamil Nadu, farmers have lost an entire crop season to the Cauvery row -Sruthisagar Yamunan

In Tamil Nadu, farmers have lost an entire crop season to the Cauvery row -Sruthisagar Yamunan

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published Published on Oct 22, 2016   modified Modified on Oct 22, 2016
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The squabble with Karnataka over river water has heightened agricultural distress, leaving many with significant debt.

The three acres that Jayamohan owns in Orathanadu in Thanjavur district of Tamil Nadu has not seen a harvest since January.

Encouraged by a bountiful north-east monsoon last November, Jayamohan anticipated a normal south-west monsoon in the middle of this year. He prepared his land in May for the kuruvai summer crop season (which is known as the kharif in other parts of the country) and made a vow to tonsure his head at the Ranganathaswamy temple in Srirangam if he was blessed with a good harvest.

Since his land abuts a canal fed by the Cauvery river and has a comfortable slope, he was hopeful that even a small amount of water released from the Mettur dam – the river's entry point in Tamil Nadu – would be enough to save his crop if the monsoon was scanty.

But his optimism has faded. "I raised the nursery and ploughed the land, but I could not find a drop of water in June to feed the crops," he said. Along with the crop, his investments have also wilted away.

"They say the farmer feeds the nation," he said, pointing to his cracked field. "Now we don't have anything to feed ourselves. We depend on ration rice."

In the Cauvery Delta zone, which encompasses 14.7 lakh hectares of farmland across seven central districts of Tamil Nadu, fields have remained mostly uncultivated this summer. Citing a poor monsoon, Karnataka refused to release Tamil Nadu's share of water from the Cauvery.

Even though the Supreme Court on October 1 directed Karnataka to release the water, this may not help much. Tamil Nadu requires 163 thousand million cubic feet of water till May 2017 for its farming and drinking water needs, but is expected to get only 143.18 tmc ft – that too assuming the north-east monsoon is robust. The crisis has increased the debt burden on farmers and led to distress selling of cattle and land.

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Scroll.in, 21 October, 2016, http://scroll.in/article/819424/cauvery-dispute-in-tamil-nadu-parched-lands-push-farmers-into-distress


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