Farmers seek damages for disease in paddy variety
The Hindu
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A group of farmers under the aegis of the Cheekkallur Padashekhara Samiti is preparing to launch agitations seeking adequate compensation for crop loss suffered by the farmers who had raised “Manuvarna”, a new rice variety released by the Kerala Agricultural University recently, on 240 acres in Wayanad district.
Speaking to mediapersons here on Wednesday, spokespersons of the samiti, K. Kesava Marar and E.P. Philipkutty, said that 60 farmers under the samiti had cultivated the new variety of rice on 240 acres of land and it was completely destroyed by the rice blast disease, a fungal disease affecting paddy.
But another rice variety, “Athira”, which was cultivated only 30 cm away from the paddy field, was not attacked by the blast disease, they said.
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