It is a mango season. India is the largest Mango producer in the world, it cultivates more than 1/3rd of Mango's in the world. India produces ~20 million tonnes of mango, cultivated in ~57 lakhs acres. Andhra and UP top the list, higher than the 2nd most cultivated country 1/5
This map shows mango cultivation across #TamilNadu for the FY 2020-2021. #Krishnagiri tops the state in the Cultivated area but only in 2020, Tiruvallur saw the highest mango cultivation at ~10Cr kg. Mango cultivation changes based on the Variety/climate/rainfall/heat..etc 2/5
In the year 2019-2020 Krishnagiri was top with 2.22lakh tonnes of Mango, Tiruvallur placed at No.7, and Dharmapuri was at No.2. This map shows mango cultivated areas in 2021, this should be taken as a basis to assess mango cultivation. Krishnagiri is always top in Mango 3/5
Tamil Nadu is a 6th largest cultivator of Mango(~5%) in India. In the year 2020-21, there was a steep decline in Mango production in the northwest, it is a one-off year. This map shows mango productivity in the year 2020-21. Table shows a comparison with 2019-2020 4/5
If Andhra and Uttar Pradesh were separate countries, they will be the 2nd and 3rd largest mango cultivators in the world. India is blessed with hundreds of Mango varieties that are most unique and outright delicious 5/5
For the state that is shown as having zero mango cultivation meant, their cultivation is so low, and data was not available.
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Super El Nino increasingly becoming a reality in 2026, it is often coincide with flooding rain in Chennai. My personal opinion, Chennai already went beyond feasible natural flood mitigation solution, Chennai need a engineered solution to mitigate heavy flood impact. 1/3
The worst case flood scenario for Chennai is when these events happen at once 1. Soil saturated & upstream lakes filled due to previous rainfall 2. A strong/moist weather system hitting Chennai, that keep sea tide high, this stormy sea doesnot allow river to drain the water 2/3
3. Extremely heavy widespread rain blasting chennai, Ranipet, Kanchipuram, and Chengalpattu districts with multiple places reporting 200+mm rainfall, most places reporting 100+mm, few places reporting 300+mm. Lakes opening, All these water need to drain through Chennai city 3/5
Tamil Nadu boasts many interesting physical geographical features within its 1,30,058 sqkm surface area. This thread🧵 list few of them 1. Let's start with Podhigai hills, forms the core of Tamil's history, it is home to five headed mountain peak called Ainthalai Podhigai 1/n
2. Theri Kaadu, an red sand dune desert like feature. spread across Thoothukudi, Nellai, and Kanyakumari districts. British planted many Cashew & Palm trees to stop the movement of Theri sands 2/n
Varanavasi Badlands (near Fossil Museum) in Ariyalur dt, the sedimentary rock formation that has largest collection of marine fossils in India that belong to Cretaceous period (6.5Cr yrs before). It is a wonder above and below the ground 3/n
In the Navaratri session, many in northern India are fasting with Sabudana(Javvarisi/Sago) diet, Sago consumption peaks in India. Salem district in Tamil Nadu is called Sabudana/Sago capital of India, 80% of Sago comes from here 1/4
📷- Sago factory, Salem
Sabudana/Sago is used as a stable food in China for millennia, where it is made from Sago plants. But in India, Sago's are made from Tapioca(cassava). Tapioca was introduced to India(Kerala) during 1860's as a famine food, Sago is introduced to India in the early 20th century 2/4
The first Sago factory in India started in Salem in the early 1940's. Tapioca from Kerala is brought to Salem to make Sabudana. In the early 2000's, TN govt financially funded the industry as a sago cluster. Now, it is grown into a bigger industry with high-tech machines 3/4
Kyrgyzstan govt called-off the rescue operation to rescue 47yr old Russian female mountaineer Natalia Nagovitsyna. She broke her leg on 12 Aug & got stuck at 7150m height during her Snow Leopard Expedition to Jengish Chokusu peak (7439m) in the Tian Shan range of Kyrgyzstan🧵1/5
Snow leopard award is given to a mountaineer who climbed all five 7000+m peaks of former Soviet Union. Three peaks are in Pamir range & two are in Tian-Shan range. Natalia lost her husband Sergei on 2021 at 7000m height while climbing Khan Tengri peak 2/5
In this month, Natalia was climbing Victory peak(Jengish Chokusu) in Kyrgyzstan with two other, at 7150m while trying to save her teammate she broke her leg. It is difficult to carry someone in this peak due to tough 3km final trek. Her teammate came down to get rescue team 3/5
Everyone should know about the basic details of their state budget. In this thread, I am going to compare the budget of southern states(2024-25 & 2025-26).
Good budget will have zero revenue deficit, that is money required to just run the govt should be less than the revenue 1/7
Total budget & paying back the existing debt, last yr (2024-25) numbers are in bracket, (in lakh Cr)
State-Total budget-Debt paid 1. TN- 4.86L Cr(4.4 L Cr)-0.47 L Cr(0.41)
2.KA- 4.09(3.66)- 0.26(0.25)
3.AP- 3.22(2.7)- 0.24(0.25)
4.TG-3 (2.6)-0.2(0.18) 5. Kl-3.1(2.8)-1.1 (1.1) 2/7
Now, lets talk about revenue expenditure, it is the money spent to just run the govt incl paying back existing commitment like welfare..etc
State-Revenue Expenditure(in lakh Cr) 1. TN-3.73L Cr(3.4 L Cr in 2024-45) 2. KA- 3.12(2.84) 3. AP-2.5(2.2) 4. TG-2.3 (2) 5. KL-1.8(1.6) 3/7
Cauvery has a basin area of 81155 sqkm, in that 66% of the catchment (1.32 Cr acres) is occupied by farmlands, 41 lakh acre(20%) occupied by forests that holds 23% of India's Tiger & Elephant population, 9 lakh acres of built-up area. Tiruppur dt has the native grasslands 1/3
Cauvery basin has only 16636 sqkm of forest, but they are one of the most eco-diverse forest in the world with many endemic species. They hold 8 national parks, UNESCO bio-sphere reserve, 24 wildlife sanctuaries, 6 Tiger reserves, 8 Bird Sanctuaries, Ramsar sites, Mangroves 2/3
Cauvery basin has an dams (excluding lakes) with capacity of 320 TMC. Cauvery is a multi monsoon river, where portion of the basin receive SWM, other portion receive NEM monsoon, so the existing storage help to utilize 100% of her average flow. Cauvery is a eco-diverse river 3/3