About this ebook
The farming activity in delta districts is solely dependent on River Cauvery. Since the year 1974, Cauvery delta farmers have been deprived of their right to use Cauvery water. This made them poor, debt struck and has led to suicides. Farming has become unsustainable. The root cause of all these sufferings is the insufficient flow of Cauvery water.
The aim of this book is to let our North Indian leaders, BJP and Congress, know that River Cauvery is sacred and revered and that it makes the delta soil fertile and rich. Without Cauvery water, the delta lands now look barren and dead. All the fine arts grew and developed only because of Cauvery. Architecture was in full bloom on the banks of Cauvery because of Tamil kings.
Cauvery irrigation is systemic and technically viable. Solutions to augment the flow of Cauvery water from the west-flowing rivers have been proposed to resolve the issue permanently.
About the author
Mr. Kattumannarkoil V.Kannan was born on 16th February 1949 into a well-to-do landlord’s family in Kattumannarkoil in Cuddalore District. His family was well known in the district because his father was a great lawn tennis player in the 1930s and 1940s.
The author lost his father when he was eighteen and was forced to get into agriculture as he was the only son. He studied in the local government high school and acquired a degree in B.Sc., Mathematics from Annamalai University. He graduated his B.G.L. Degree through distance education from Mysore University.
Since 1967, he has been farming in the family land, of about sixty acres, passed down to him. He is a shrewd agriculturist and raised paddy and sugarcane in his lands.
He noticed the sufferings of farmers owing to the forces of nature and the lethargic attitude of successive governments. With Mr. A. T. Sethurama Pillai, he was instrumental in forming the Kollidam Keezhanai Pasana Vivasayigal Sangam and was its treasurer. Later, he served as Vice President of the Cauvery Delta Farm Producers’ Welfare Association where Mannargudi S. Renganathan was the lifetime general secretary. He wrote a book on agriculture Yer, Neer, Paarkakka, which was released by honorable Pon. Radhakrishnan, Central Minister, in the year 2016.
