Assessment of crop loss owing to lack of rainfall in Thoothukudi district is under way.
Officials of the Department of Agriculture and other departments had been assessing the extent of damage caused to the crops, Collector M. Ravikumar said here on Monday.
He said the officials would ensure cent per cent assessment of agricultural fields. About 10 per cent of the assessment had been completed. The assessment of the damage caused to 13 major crops had been made on a random basis at 53 villages across the district, and about 95 per cent of the crops suffered damage, he said.
The assessment would be made at over 400 villages. A report was forwarded to the government following the visit of the special team of monitoring officers, who took stock of farm lands in the district recently, he added.
