Agitation against implementation of Eco Sensitive Zone in Kanyakumari District.

Documentation how the Econ sensitive zone was planned

No public opinion was taken and now previous announcement was done

Satellite survey only was taken. That showed all the estate areas as forest area as
we have old large clustered trees

Western gats is 1500 kilometers long why just the small district with such a huge
population is targeted.

Very ecofriendly people who take care of the environment well

Import restricting products like pepper, clove and rubber are cultivated.

They are great in quality then any othe rpart of the world because sea breeze
gives better quality and that too double rainfall makes it really good.

Farmers don’t leave any area vacant. We make sure that we use it and change
crops and make sure we practice the best

thickly populated district with 1,100 person /square Kilmoeter.

The average in Tamilnadus is 550 / Sq KM. Even

kerala have 850

No iIdustries,ITt parks, ports, and government departments and so on.

We are just purely with farming accommodating such a huge population without
any other industries.

In our land area of 1600 Sq. Km 400 Sq. Km is forest and another 200 Sq km goes
for dams, ponds, lakes, rock mountains and so on. In this instance we have
actually land area of only 1000 Sq. Km.
If you plan to take away another 198 Sq. Km we will be left with only 800Sq. Km.

With this land area if we calculate we have more than 2,200 people living in 1Sq
Km.

This is impossible for such a small land to accommodate such a huge population
with farming alone.

Multiple laws

With such a high population trying to survive and sustain it is very difficult.

Natural calamity, price fluctuations

Haka,

Private forest Act,

Forest conservation act,

Buffer Zone of KMTR

Eco sensitive zone is With all these laws we are not able to get permission to do
any of the following.

Cutting trees,

Removing of fallen trees,

Lay or maintain the Roads,

Make shelter sheds for watchman to keep them safe from animals,

Make place to store our farm produces,

Take equipment to do any work in our estates,

If more and more acts and limitations are brought in, it is going to really kill the
farming industry in our district.

Alternative move or get killed or kill the economy.

Special advantages of Kanyakumari district and why farming should be
encouraged

Clove which grows in locations near the sea. We can find this in Indonesia,
Tasmania, Srilanka where there are sea around the country or make of many
Islands.

V Shaped district with 180 Degree curve is made of sea shores we get good close

Import and Exports make the country prosper or doom.

We were a farming based economy as we had e highest population as people.

Pepper from this area is very spicy which make sure that they beat the Vietnam
pepper which is the biggest import to India. This make sure people need to use
less pepper and reduces the cost of making food items and increases the name
and brand of the prduct.

Coconuts are larger in size and they have more thick coconut endospern. Rubber
gives more rubber milk because of the heavy and double rainfall.

Many areas in Tamilnadu is not cultivatable at all as they are depended on

cauvery and vaigai. Vaigai is amost not getting water. Cauvery water comes only
once in 3 – 4 years. As

Economic crisis.

like India if we leave cultivatable lands with high income we will end up in crisis.
So this scheme is really very risky to implement from a district, state or central
level which will reduce the income and food shortage in the long run.

Global Warming.

Global warming is really changing the world pattern of farming.

The expect 40 % of the cities are likely to run out of water in the next 10 years.
6 dams and 4000 ponds

Area of the District.

4000 feet ablve sea level different types or farm products are products which are

Local Economy

The local economy with this such a densely populated district manages all these
with the farmeing

some schools , colleges and few small shops with government employees. T

his district has been made as a self reliant and interdepennt on these
functionalites.

15% of the land this district will suffer economically

Triangular district with one side mountain and other two sides sea. This is almost
like a island Migration Option

If we are taking almost 200 Sq Km

19 lakhs population in that if 20 % of

4 lakh people have to be moved out of the district for their sustainability.

Sucide rates in other districts of tamilnadu is high and these farmers with only

Ecology.
We are very understanding people about the ecology and the human existence.
We understand the problem faced by the world in terms of the need of the forest,
animals, plants.

We don’t do for any extrations of minarals, mines or land escavation for any of
the purposes.
We just make sure they all survive and exist.

summer season from april to july most of the animals come down to our farming
areas for their food and once the rain returns and the grass starts growing they
are moving back.

The global warming is coming up in a big time and the most affected location if
global warming happens is going to be our district in India as we are closest the
equator.

Work together.

Solare water pumps for them

Fire line.

Make sure there is no fire.

Manaing forest for the animals.

Why our District is targeted

a small tiny district with large area of forest and high population

Himalayas they are making new roads on the mountain on a very risky high rocky
areas for even truck transport. In K

ashmir almost most of the part off the country is cultivatable land but still they
are laying new road and new paths.

Undertround tunnel through the mountain was laid for 9 kM which was opened
recently.

Under the Act East policy the government has taken a lot of projects in Arunachal
Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura and
Sikkim, these states.
road, rail, air, telecom, power and waterways with thousands of crores.
These are one of the best cultivatable lands and the nature is being
destroyed and so many works are happening.

Not only in India across the world so many countries are spoiling the forest
and creating farming.

We are not asking for new area, new development, new industries, new
roads now factories or new farming area.

Our request is to just leave the are alone as it was let the farmers do the
duty for their family and the country.

Let us not threaten their existence as it have a lot of meaning and need not
only for their family but also for the state, country and the world as long as
human race exists in this planet.

In north eastern parts of india a lot of new lands are taken for cultivation and
many highway were built during the last few years.