The Agriculture Department will recommend a high-level study into the repeated landslips after extremely heavy rainfall under Udumbanchola taluk areas. Officials said that, within a 15-day gap, two panchayats under the taluk witnessed extremely heavy rainfall, which resulted in landslips and crop damage. The latest incident occurred on Sunday evening in Santhanpara panchayat areas, and it caused large-scale damage to farmland and crop loss. Nearly one acre of agricultural land was washed away in a landslip following heavy rain at Pachadi near Nedumkandam under Udumbanchola taluk on October 23. According to officials, the landslip occurred around 1 a.m. following a three-hour-long heavy rainfall.
Deputy Director of Agriculture(Credit) Idukki, Ambily C., said that the landslips at Santhanpara was almost of the same magnitude as at Puthumala or Kavalappara .
“As per the primary assessment by the Agriculture Department, a total of 23.5 hectares of agricultural land was destroyed due to serial landslips. With this, 10 hectares of agricultural land fully washed away, “ said Ms. Ambily.
