Despite poor monsoon, kuruvai cultivation on

A poor southwest monsoon, notwithstanding, it has been a brisk kuruvai cultivation in the delta region. The latest government estimates suggest that the delta region covered 1.134 lakh hectares with the shortterm paddy crop as against the normal coverage of two lakh hectares. Many of the farmers extracted groundwater to cultivate the water-intensive crop.

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