TIRUCHY: Ahead of district Collectors taking stock of the standing crops across the State to ascertain the impact of monsoon failure, farming associations here have sought the committee to include farmers in respective districts to ensure authenticity of field study.
Besides, a section of farmers also alleged that a mechanism insisting IAS officials to do field study for submitting a report on drought status would aggravate the disappointment of farmers seeking crop compensation.
With the State government directing Collectors, except in Chennai, to tour their respective jurisdictions for reporting the status of standing crops by January 10, farmers sought the visits to be carried out cautiously.
Even as the State government is pursuing the official protocol by conducting assessment in 10 per cent of the villages that is necessary as per the new guidelines of Union Government, farmers said that the proposed mechanism would not immediately appease the frustration of farmers.
“Farmers on a daily basis are either committing suicide or succumbing to illnesses over crop failure. At this time, we need the State government to immediately back us instead of constituting a committee. There is no need of a field study,” Ayilai Sivasuriyan, district secretary of TN Vivasayigal Sangam, said.