Karisal farmers of Thoothukudi district staring at another round of loss
The Hindu
Association urges government to distribute compensation under crop insurance scheme at the earliest
First it failed to rain.Then it rained continuously causing loss to farmers who had chosen to cultivate black gram, green gram, cumbu, maize, sorghum and onion.
Despite the plants getting rotten due to the sustained wet condition, the farmers of karisal bhoomi (black cotton soil) of Vilathikulam, Ettayapuram and Kadambur did not give up.They used the last opportunity of the season to cultivate coriander and sunflower.

“Judicial time is a valuable public resource. Every frivolous or misconceived invocation of constitutional jurisdiction results in diversion of time from genuinely deserving litigants,” said the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court while imposing a cost of ₹50,000 on a man from Theni district who filed a petition with an unusual prayer: permission to conduct daily protests till the ‘World War’ ends.












