Monday, December 19, 2011

Mullaperiyar and Work - an Interim Update

Hello Friends,

We have not had any untoward incidents at our farms and we have been able to continue with our routine maintenance work uninterrupted till date.We have a worker from the local village itself who has been attending to work right through this difficult time. Ours may be the only Keralite farm in the area where maintenance could be looked after.

Today we are discussing re commencement of work with the support of neighbouring farmers and some of the local village people and we hope to start with some transplanting operations from our trial nurseries soon. Our Supervisors who are locals as I mentioned earlier are doing the talking to get things moving again.

Cumbum Valley and Theni District has not come back to normalcy and there are periodic demonstrations and protests taking place. Appeals made by respective Chief Ministers for calm yesterday is expected to have some effect as per feed back from local people and we await to see how the situation progresses. I think the waters will remain choppy for some more time but feel we will be able to navigate out of the situation safely over the coming few weeks.

Thanks
Rajesh