TIRUCHY: The Delta farmers demanded that the state government release a special samba package for going ahead with cultivation and sent a representation on the same to the Chief Minister MK Stalin on Wednesday.

According to Swamimalai Sundara Vimalnathan, the secretary of the Tamil Nadu Cauvery Farmers' Protection Association, the state government had released the kuruvai special package on time, which was supportive to the farmers who undertook kuruvai cultivation. However, the samba special package has not yet been released, he noted.

“The late Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa used to release both kuruvai and samba thalady special packages every year, but it was stopped by her successor Edappadi K Palaniswami. The present DMK government too had not released it," Vimalnathan stated.

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