Rain Damages 50,000 Hectares Of Crop As Tamil Nadu Braces For 4th Spell
NDTV
The worst-hit districts are Chennai, Villupuram Cuddalore in the north, Kanyakumari and Tuticorin in the south and the delta region in Central Tamil Nadu.
Crops spread over more than 50,000 hectares have been battered by heavy rain in Tamil Nadu which received 68 per cent more than average downpour this monsoon season.
The worst-hit districts are Chennai, Villupuram Cuddalore in the north, Kanyakumari and Tuticorin in the south and the delta region in Central Tamil Nadu.
More than 2,300 homes have been damaged due to the heavy rain which has been pounding the state since October. Two thirds of the state got flooded as the rain peaked with two successive spells in the second week of November.
In Nagapattinam district, a farmer, Rasappan, has lost his ready to harvest paddy he had raised on a 15-acre leased land.
