A pandal set up for vegetable cultivation was completely destroyed due to heavy rains, destroying crops on about two acres of land. The vegetable cultivation of A R Mohanan and M V Shyamala of Karinthalam was destroyed in heavy rains on Sunday night (August 23).
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The couple had been cultivating about two acres of land in Karinthalam Devaswom on lease. Vegetables like cucumber, cucumber and pumpkin were mainly cultivated. Yam was also cultivated extensively under the same pandal. With the collapse of the pandal, the sugarcane crop was also badly damaged.