Reiterating their demand for sanction of compensation for crop loss suffered by banana growers in Tiruchi district, farmers’ representatives of Tiruchi district have urged the government to take steps to sanction money from the calamity relief fund to banana growers sustaining crop losses on account of natural vagaries.
In a representation submitted to the Commissioner of Horticulture in Thanjavur, the farmers observed that banana crop on over 30,000 acres of land had withered because of monsoon failure and lack of flow in the Cauvery over the past six months. This apart, crops in many places were damaged in gale.
Farmers had spent Rs. 1.50 lakh an acre for raising banana and were facing a distress situation now owing to the crop loss, they said in the joint memorandum.
Suriyan, district secretary, Tamil Nadu Vivasayigal Sangam, Puliyur A. Nagarajan, president, Tamil Nadu Horticulture Crop Producers Association, and N. Veerasekaran of Ayyan Vaival Pasanatharar Sangam, were present.
