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Coconut farmers worried over whitefly attack Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA A coconut tree affected in the whitefly attack in a grove at Sholavandan in Madurai district on Sunday. | Photo Credit: R. Ashok Coconut farmers of Madurai district are in a state of worry following attack of Rugose Spiralling Whitefly, an invasive pest, in coconut trees. P. Manikandan, president of Madurai District Wet and Dry Land Farmers’ Association, said the attack is visible in the coconut trees for the past one month. “Earlier the attack was confined to Pollachi and Udumalpet and other places in the State,” he said. There are around 3,000 hectares of coconuts trees in Sholavandan and Kottampatti regions in Madurai district. ....
Travelling on a push cart to cast her vote Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA P. Ramuthai, a differently-abled woman, travelled on a broken push cart to cast her vote at a polling station in Government Higher Secondary School at Kottampatti in Madurai district on Tuesday. Madurai It was an unusual sight on Tuesday morning at Government Higher Secondary School, Kottampatti in Melur constituency, as an elderly woman entered the polling booth on a push cart. Two school boys were seen pushing the broken cart on which P. Ramuthai, a 70-year-old differently-abled woman, travelled so that she could exercise her right to vote. ....
Police personnel injured in stone pelting near Madurai Updated: Updated: March 16, 2021 12:30 IST A mob attacked a police team early on Tuesday, when they tried to removed a statue installed without permission Share Article AAA Stones and bricks strewn around an ambulance that was one of the vehicles damaged in stone pelting at Vellalapattipudur in Madurai in the early hours of Tuesday | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement A mob attacked a police team early on Tuesday, when they tried to removed a statue installed without permission A mob of over 200 persons pelted stones on a police team in which five police personnel, including a Deputy Superintendent of Police, were injured and a few police vehicles, a fire tender and an ambulance were damaged near Melur in Madurai in the early hours of Tuesday. ....
Farmers demand opening of DPCs Updated: Updated: They also want measures to check mismanagement, corruption at these centres Share Article AAA They also want measures to check mismanagement, corruption at these centres With the commencement of paddy harvest in a few pockets of the double-crop region in the district, farmers have urged the district administration to open Direct Purchase Centres (DPCs) in these areas. Steps have to be taken to avoid any mismanagement or corruption at these centres, they say. Joint Director of Agriculture T. Vivekanandan said paddy crop on around 5,000 hectares would be harvested within the next 15 days in Vadipatti, Madurai East and Madurai North blocks. Water was released in the last week of August to irrigate the first crop of the double-crop area in the district. ....
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