kumily tnkerala border the mullaperiyar issue has sown the seeds of mutual distrust between people on either side of the 116yearold dam but nobody wants a harvest of hate jobless for four days because of the curfew in the border districts plantation and farm labourers who live in tamil nadu and work in kerala have started feeling the pinch and want an immediate end to the impasse daily incomes of families have come down from rs 500 to rs 200 and in some cases nilnot any better are the cardamom farmers in kerala who may soon face a crisis without workers to pluck the spice it is a double whammy for kerala farmers as the price of their produce plummets and the cost of vegetables milk and other essentials that come from tamil nadu shoot upp n surulivelu who owns 30 acres of cardamom plantations in idukki says he has incurred a loss of rs 85000 in the last week birds are feasting on ripe cardamom as there is no one to pluck them if the situation continues for a few more weeks i will have to wind up everything and leave he saystamil workers wont last that long we are on the verge of starvation says pon murugan a driver who has been out of his job for four days i dont think i will get my monthly income of rs 5000 this time my family of four is surviving on my wifes daily wage of rs 150 he says murugans wife is lucky to have her job in kamaya goundapatti village near cumbum other women from the village who used to work in kerala plantations are scared to move out of their huts in cumbum after an unruly bunch of youngsters waylaid their jeep on the kerala side three days agoweve been living like brothers says kavi suresh who works in a vineyard in cumbum about his relationship with keralites now that good feeling is gone but we dont want to live in hatred forever we want this issue to end at the earliest he says the vineyard he works in has ripe grapes waiting to be pluckedkerala is our main market says p chinnu who doubles up as a watchman at a vineyard with loads not moving to kerala we are forced to keep the fruits on the plants as long as they last a threviyam a farm labour in cumbum says there are 1500 men like him staring at uncertainty i am worried about the dam which is our lifeline but my bigger worry is to feed my family for the next few months please do something to put an end to all this trouble he says he sees his perishing livelihood in the rotting grapes