The rain that lashed delta districts in the last two days has flattened and damaged harvest-ready sambapaddycrop on thousands of acres in Thanjavur, according to farmers and Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agricultureofficials.
Besides this, 50,000 tonnes of paddy that was procured and stacked in an open stockyard of NaduCivil Supplies Corporation (TNCSC) at Sannapram near Kumbakonam got drenched in the rain.
Farmers said about 1,000 acres of samba paddy crop ripe for harvest has been submerged in Orathanadu, Pattukottai, Peravurani and Thanjavur taluks.