May 14, 2014 10:11 IST  In the wake of bilateral talks between fishermen of Sri Lanka and India in Colombo hitting a deadlock over the use of trawlers by Indian fishermen, fishermen here seek government intervention for expediting the phasing-out of trawlers. 

CHENNAI: M Chandrabalan of Kabisthalam in Thanjavur district is in distress. He is desperately awaiting a prospective buyer for his eight-acre farm, which was being used for cultivation of paddy, banana and sugarcane crop till a few years back. "My land is up for sale. There is no water, power or labour to raise the crop. Why keep it idle," he said, summing up his angst and that of other farmers in the region.

 April 20, 2014 11:55  Seawater intrusion into the coastal aquifer and the Kollidam river system has been posing a serious threat to agriculture and the environment in the tail-end areas of the Cauvery delta: the Chidambaram, Kattumannarkoil and Bhuvanagiri blocks, and some parts of Nagapattinam district.

February 6, 2014 11:46 IST The Madras High Court Bench on Wednesday directed the State Government to consider constituting a Farmers Debt Relief Commission (FDRC) on the lines of a commission already established in Kerala to provide assistance to drought-affected farmers.

TRICHY: Cattle farmers in Trichy and neighbouring districts are a worried lot as they rue that their cows are not producing enough milk. This, they claim is because of the over dosage of vaccinations given to the cattle following the outbreak of foot and mouth disease (FMD) recently.

December 26, 2013, Chennai:  The fishing community in coastal Tamil Nadu, badly battered by the killer tsunami of 2004, now sports its original attitude - work and earn your livelihood rather than expecting doles, fishermen and NGO officials said.

CHENNAI  : 10th December 2013  The erratic monsoon in the State last month not only resulted in a deficit of around 30 per cent of rains but also a dip in the ground water levels in 30 of the 32 districts, according to State Ground and Surface Water Resources Data Centre of Water Resources Department.

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