Summary:
Uprooted and broken banana plants with the bunch in production stage upset hundreds of farmers in the delta region. M Periyasamy from Lalgudi was stunned to see almost his entire banana crop on 15 acres brought down. The entire stretch of both the banks of Cauvery covering Thanjavur, Tiruvarur and Nagappattinam is rich in banana cultivation and the farmers estimate that 15,000 acres of the crop had been damaged. “Only around two acres of plants withstood the winds in my banana farm. Trichy district collector K Rajamani said that the process of assessing the damage would begin shortly..