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The Madras Superior Court on Wednesday (April 16, 2025) addressed the horticulture department to issue press statements by dissipating the doubts that consumers could have about the quality of the watermelons that are sold through the tetine of the Tamil Inspection, Fruassonson Byitson, making chemicals to improve their color or sweetness.
Judge D. Bharatha Chakravarthy issued the provisional order on a written request presented by M. Venkatesan, president of the Welfare Association of the Farmers of Chengalpattu. The petitioner had accused a designated officer of the Department of Security and Medicines Food (FSDA), or having created panic among watermelon consumers when making certain radical statements.
The lawyer of the petitioner in writing R. Sankarasubbu, assisted by K. Kesavan, said that farmers in the district of Chengalpattu had begun to grow watermelon in January waiting for good sales that become the summer season from April of this year. He said it was a fruit with many health benefits and helps cool the body by rejoicing the loss of water content caused by intense heat.
Farmers in the district of Chengalpattu had only cultivated watermelon in approximately 16,000 acres this season by spending around ₹ 68,000 to cultivate each acre in their own agricultural country. Those who had lease tasks had others ₹ 30,000 for each acre they expected ₹ 10,000 per ton in exchange for first degree watermelons, ₹ 5,000 per ton per second grade and ₹ 2,000 per ton for third grade fruit.
Accusing the FSDA official of having suddenly disseminated the panic by stating that artificial dyes were being injected into the fruits to improve their color, said the lawyer, had announced the sunk affected by farmers who were not in the realization of the realization or realization of the realization or realization of the realization or realization of the realization or realization of the realization or realization of the realization. Prices
A cheerful of the special government told the court that it was the horticulture department that distributed the watermelon seeds to the farmers in the district of Chengalpattu this year and that the random inspections attended by the department recently made the detection of the detection of any leg to the detection of any leg. leg to the detection of any leg to the detection of any leg for the detection or its bone legs or its bone legs or its straight. Now they were being sold in the open market.
After registering his presentation, the judge ordered the department to issue press statements insurance to consumers of the quality of the fruits sold in the market so that farmers do not end up suffering the monetary loss. The judge also ordered a notice, returning before June 9, to the FSDA official interested in the main writing request to give the opportunity to explain his position.
Published – April 16, 2025 06:00 pm ist
