date:Dec 11, 2019
The cascading effect of Cyclone Gaja and the crash in price banana has hit banana growers in the Cauvery-irrigated areas of the Thanjavur district as they have been forced to leave the banana bunches on the trees to ripe and rot as the price of the fruit oscillated between just ?10-20 (0.13-0.26) a bunch.
Normally, banana cultivation would be taken up in Cauvery irrigation areas during October every year. With this schedule, the trees would start yielding bunches by August or September subsequ