Farmers upset over acute shortage of urea
The Hindu
Even as the farmers were expecting bumper harvest during the ongoing ‘pisanam’ paddy season with all 11 dams in Tirunelveli and Tenkasi districts overflowing, an acute shortage of urea in all the four
Even as the farmers were expecting bumper harvest during the ongoing ‘pisanam’ paddy season with all 11 dams in Tirunelveli and Tenkasi districts overflowing, an acute shortage of urea in all the four southern districts threatens to dash their expectations.
Cultivation of paddy moved to top gear in Tirunelveli, Tenkasi and Thoothukudi districts during the ‘pisanam’ paddy season (between November and February) after the north-east monsoon jacked up water storage level in all 11 dams – Papanasam, Servalar, Manimuthar, Kodumudiyar, Vadakku Pachchaiyar and Nambiyar, all in Tirunelveli district, and Gadana, Ramanadhi, Karuppanadhi, Adavinainar and Gundar dams in Tenkasi district – to the maximum storage level.
In Kanniyakumari district, Petchipaarai and Perunchaani dams, the major reservoirs of the district, are overflowing.