Heavy rain followed by gales damaged tomato gardens and mango orchards
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Tirupati: The SPDCL restored 60 per cent power supply in Madanapalle mandal of Chittoor district on Thursday. They have taken steps to revive power supply by Friday morning after two days. The transmission wires were snapped when a tree fell on it due to heavy rain followed by gales on Tuesday night. According to SPDCL officials as many as 362 electrical poles and 27 transformers were damaged. The officials removed trees and restored power supply.
Similarly, the officials are supplying drinking water through tankers in the mandal. They su-pplied drinking water to 10 colonies in Madanapalle. The heavy rain followed by gales damaged about 40 houses in Valmiki Nagar, Vaddi-palli, Venkamma Kota, and Gara Buruju. The SPDCL superintendent engineer K. Ramamoh-an who visited Madana-palle on Thursday supervised power supply restoration works. He instructed officials to restore power supply as early as possible.
Madanapalle sub-collector A. Mallikarjuna said, “We have restored 60 per cent power supply. We will give 100 per cent power supply by Thursday midnight or Friday morning. We are doing our best to revive the power supply. We have already restored drinking water supply. We will get crop damage report on Friday.” He conducted a review meeting with officials on Thursday in his chambers and instructed officials to restore power supply as early as possible.
Heavy rain followed by gales damaged tomato gardens and mango orchards in thousands of hectares in Madana-palle and Nimmanapalli mandals of Chittoor district. According to preliminary estimates, loss to crop damage is more than Rs 2 crore. Mangoes were damaged in thousands of acres. Similarly, tomato crop was damaged in thousands of acres.
A. Suraiah, a vegetable vendor said “We are not getting tomato stocks as earlier. Heavy rain damaged 60 per cent of crops. Because supply cannot meet the demand, tomato prices jumped to Rs 35 a kg.”
( Source : dc correspondent )
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