There is no end to farmers’ woes in the rain-hit Upper Kuttanad villages in Pathanamthitta. The waterlogged fields seldom allow mechanised harvesting, further dashing the hopes of the hapless farmers.
Sam Eapen, Peringara grama panchayat president and the Upper Kuttanad Nelkarshaka Samiti president, told The Hindu that paddy crop in as much as 550 acres of fields of Chathankary, Kodankery, Vadavady, among others, has been badly hit by the summer rains.
Chances of manual harvest in the waterlogged fields too was difficult, he said.
The unscientific opening of the Thanneermukkom bund shutters in Alappuzha district too contributed to the prolonged waterlogging of the paddy fields in Upper Kuttanad.
