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| Tarigami demands immediate relief to snow hit orchardists | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Nov10- Demanding immediate relief to the orchardists whose fruit plantation has been damaged due to early snowfall this year, the State Secretary CPI (M) Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami has urged the government to take up measures for assessment of the losses on urgent basis, especially in the kandi belt of South Kashmir where sizeable population of fruit growers has been worst hit.
In a statement issued today Tarigami said that present dispensation should set a new precedent of extending prompt succor to the farming community, who suffer in such natural calamities, adding previous governments seldom lived up to their promises made with peasants from time to time.
He said the peasants toil hard to earn their livelihood but vagaries of weather often strike them and shatter their economy. In such situations, the grower community looks forward for support and it becomes an obligatory for the government to come to their rescue. Tarigami said although heavy downpour and snowfall has ended long dry spell thereby providing relief to the people at large, yet its untimely occurrence has damaged the orchards at several places as harvesting season was still going on.
CPI (M) State Secretary said the peasants have suffered as their pruning season was yet to take off, adding the snowfall has extensively damaged green branches and foliage of the fruit trees, affecting their fruit bearing capacity considerably.
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