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Tiruvonum farmers stage protest at meeting
The Hindu
The grievance redress meeting for farmers convened by Collector Dinesh Ponraj Oliver here on Friday got impeded for a brief period as a group of farmers from Thiruvonum staged a demonstration right at
The grievance redress meeting for farmers convened by Collector Dinesh Ponraj Oliver here on Friday got impeded for a brief period as a group of farmers from Thiruvonum staged a demonstration right at the meeting venue itself in order to highlight their grievance.
The farmers, led by V. K. Chinnadurai, secretary, Thiruvonam Taluk Farmers’ Welfare Association, sporting green colour towels on their heads squatted on the floor in front of the podium seeking immediate redressal of their grievance after presenting a memorandum to the Collector.
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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.