October 18, 2013 “Ponni,” the most preferred variety of rice in the State, has caught the imagination of people in Singapore too.  Between January and August this year, the South East Asian country consumed 92,865 tonnes of Ponni rice, compared to 85,816 tonnes of Jasmine rice 

October 18, 2013 In Adivasi Colony, a remote hamlet off the road from Vedaranyam to Kodikarai in Tamil Nadu, most of the adults in the 200-odd households work in salt manufacturing. They prepare salt pans manually, irrigate them with saline water which is three times saltier than seawater,

Friday, Oct 11, 2013 | Chennai: Rainfall is expected to slowly decrease over TN, as cyclone Phailin gathers stre­n­gth and enters land near Andhra Pradesh and Orissa c­oast in another two days. 

CHENNAI  Published: 04th October 2013 07:55 AM The State Government will be implementing the World Bank-backed Coastal Disaster Risk Reduction Project in Tamil Nadu this year, said T S Sridhar, Additional Chief Secretary and Commissioner of Revenue Administration

COIMBATORE: Coimbatore will receive normal rainfall, as per a forecast done by the agro climate research centre under the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU). As per the study, all districts will receive normal or near normal rainfall in the coming North East monsoon.

TIRUVARUR, September 25, 2013 Forty four new Direct Procurement Centres (DPCs) of the Tamil Nadu Civil Supplies Corporation (TNCSC) have been opened in Tiruvarur district for procurement of kuruvai paddy. 

Chennai: If Perambalur tops amo­ng the districts in Tamil Nadu as the most vulnerable in terms of climate change challenges, Ari­ya­lur, Salem and Nam­akkal follow closely in the ‘disaster map’ of the National Initiative on Climate Resilience Agri­cul­ture (NICRA).

NAGAPATTINAM  16th August 2013  Frustrated over the Public Works Department’s apathy on desilting a irrigation canal for many years, the farmers of Keelachalai village near Sirkazhi block  initiated the desilting works on Thursday at the ‘Rettaivaikal canal’ which irrigates four villages in the block.

Thanjavur: With the state government announcing to release water from Mettur reservoir on Friday for samba cultivation, it has now been programmed to raise samba and thaladi crops on about 3.86 lakh hectares of land in delta districts of Thanjavur, Tiruarur and Nagap­attinam

CHENNAI, July 27, 2013  The National Green Tribunal, Southern Bench, has ordered notice to the authorities on a petition by fishermen to direct the Chettinad Power Corporation to remove structures erected by it across water canals in Nagapattinam district.  Following an application filed by S. Sivakumar and P.C. Kunasekaran,