Farmers are Fasting for Cauvery Water
Posted on: 09/Jan/2013 3:19:18 PM
Even as portraits of 10 farmers from the Cauvery delta who committed suicide this year were displayed on the background. The farmers in delta regions are protesting on request of Cauvery river water.the delta regions are food bowl of Tamilnadu which is hit by severe drought due to lack of rain and dispute of Cauvery river.
Many farmers are demanding to the government that they were of the opinion of government’s decision to provide power for more hours than the usual three hours came a bit too late right at the end of last November. “By then, the paddy crop had started wilting. Farmers to the west of Grand Anicut have their own set of problems. “About two lakh acres of paddy, banana and betel are waiting for harvest but there is no water.
