Vathalamalai is a hill hamlet located 25 km from the Dharmapuri district headquarters. Located atop a 1,418-metre-high hill, the unique climatic conditions prove favourable for the cultivation of pepper and coffee. Both coffee and pepper are raised in the vast Silver Oak Plantations set up here, as they each augment the growth of one another. A major portion of the pepper and coffee plants have wilted due to the harsh summer season and water scarcity atop the hill. "It may take upto three years for us to regrow these cash crops," farmers in Vathalmalai predicted.
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