Team visits drought-hit areas

Madurai | Sunday | 8th January, 2017

Summary:

Led by Dheeraj Kumar, Managing Director, TWAD Board, the team visited farms in 13 drought-hit villages including Karunkulam, Kasavankundru, Pillaiyarnaththam, Marthandampatti, Chinthalakkarai and Pooasanur. more-inEven as the farmers are seeking compensation for crop loss they had suffered due to monsoon failure, a team visited the drought-hit areas of the district on Saturday. The team members visited vast stretches of fields now bearing withered black gram, chilli and green gram crops. Collector M.

Ravikumar, Minister for Information Kadambur C.

Raju, Thoothukudi MP Jayasingh Thiyagaraj Nattarji, MLAs Uma Maheshwari of Vilaathikulam and Sundararajan of Ottapidaaram accompanied the inspection team. So we’ll never say anything that would disrespect the farming community,” Mr.

Raju said..