Delta farmers worried over dwindling water level in dam

Standing crop on nearly one lakh acre needs water

Anxiety prevails among delta farmers over prospects of the standing ‘kuruvai’ crop and the subsequent ‘samba’ cultivation in view of the depleting water storage at Stanley reservoir in Mettur. Stating that the present storage would not be sufficient to see through the ‘samba’ season which used to start this month, they lamented that already one-third of ‘kuruvai’ paddy cultivated in the delta and neighbouring districts had been affected due to insufficient water for irrigation.