Farmers seek permanent DPCs in Theni district
The Hindu
Good rainfall had helped in enhancing area under cultivation: Collector
The district administration should establish permanent direct purchase centres (DPCs) in Theni, said the farmers at the monthly grievance redressal meeting. Presiding over the meeting, District Collector K. V. Muralidharan said on Saturday that steps would be taken in this direction in a phased manner. However, he assured that the farmers' suggestions in this regard would be certainly looked into. The objective of avoiding middlemen would be accorded priority, he added.![](/newspic/picid-1269750-20250217064624.jpg)
When fed into Latin, pusilla comes out denoting “very small”. The Baillon’s crake can be missed in the field, when it is at a distance, as the magnification of the human eye is woefully short of what it takes to pick up this tiny creature. The other factor is the Baillon’s crake’s predisposition to present less of itself: it moves about furtively and slides into the reeds at the slightest suspicion of being noticed. But if you are keen on observing the Baillon’s crake or the ruddy breasted crake in the field, in Chennai, this would be the best time to put in efforts towards that end. These birds live amidst reeds, the bulrushes, which are likely to lose their density now as they would shrivel and go brown, leaving wide gaps, thereby reducing the cover for these tiddly birds to stay inscrutable.