‘Ensure water release in Adavinainar Dam’s Maettukkaal channel’
The Hindu
The standing crop will be in need of water till March-end for good harvest, say farmers
Farmers having their ranches under the Maettukkaal irrigation system of Adavinainar Dam have urged Collector S. Gopala Sundararaj to ensure discharge of water from the reservoir till March-end to bail out the farmers, who transplanted paddy saplings in December due to heavy downpour during last November.
The Vadakarai Keezhpidaagai Maettukkaal irrigation system feeds 1,066 acre with the water being released from Adavinainar Dam in Maekkarai in Shencottai taluk. During the ‘pisanam’ paddy season (the second crop season), the farmers would start their farming operations in mid-October or first week of November depending upon the start of northeast monsoon and the crop would be ready for harvest in February.
As the farmers getting water from Maettukkaal irrigation channel could start transplanting the paddy saplings in their fields only in December due to the continuous rain in November during the last northeast monsoon, the 120-day-crop will be ready for harvest only in March.
