Kasaragod: the Rajapura estate belonging to Plantations Corporation of Kerala was gutted by a large fire on Thursday, February 23 in Kerala sate. In view of helpful winds, fire spread like a contagious disease, devastating 60 acres of cashew plantation property that in a day lies in ruins censing a loss of Rs. 1.50 crores. […]

Mangalore: on Monday afternoon at 2.30 PM, a major fire had broken out among a group of rubber trees grown in a Ganjimutt plantation on the outskirts of the city. Neither the cause of fire, nor extent of loss incurred, has been deuced. But fire engines rushed out of Mangalore and Moodabidri, to extinguish the […]