What are the crops grown in Karnataka through the Kaveri River Water??
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Answer: Tamil Nadu's battle with Karnataka over the Cauvery river water is only intensifying with every passing day. Though Cauvery is a perennial river, Karnataka government says that it can't share much water with Tamil Nadu due to a drought situation in the state, every year.
The scenario is much worse in Tamil Nadu. As the state falls on the eastern grid of the country, it only depends on the retreating monsoon for its water needs and the agriculture sector depends 90 per cent on water from Kerala, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh during the non-monsoon season.
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Trichy, Pattukottai, Thanjavur, Naagapattinam and Thiruvarur are districts that entirely depend on water from Cauvery and Thanjavur is a district that has earned the name as paddy granary of the South as it occupies the Cauvery delta region.
Chinnathurai, a farmer from Alavathur village which lies on one of the branching rivers of Cauvery called Uyakondan river states that 50 per cent of the families from his village have given up farming and have started to take jobs as construction workers, etc."
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Sugarcane and paddy
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The delta of river kaveri is the agricultural backbone of south india as both crops require a large quantity of water to grow.