Table 3.

Rice area (ha) for the cauvery Delta districts from 2017 to 2023.

Sl. no.	Districts	2017–18	2018–19	2019–20	2020–21	2021–22	2022–23
1	Thanjavur	126,226	124,618	141,287	141,077	139,171	117,907
2	Thiruvarur	132,258	126,019	125,589	127,752	127,028	110,512
3	Nagapattinam	119,411	105,107	117,761	110,938	124,219	102,792
4	Cuddalore	99,170	77,312	104,331	88,002	101,821	100,348
5	Tiruchirapalli	31,516	23,545	17,877	43,944	32,484	45,027
Total		508,581	456,601	506,844	511,714	524,723	476,586