Subbu was down with cold. Not fever, but persistent cold. I could not understand why?. After all they are living in pristine village with tons of fresh air, pure water and healthy food. But why cold ?
He himself gave the answer. "Sir the heat is so unbearable we drink water every 5 minutes. May be that has lodged itself in the head. " It is true I myself have experienced that. If water is pure it is ok. But people who are going out and working tend to drink lot of water from all places. Especially the "sharbath" drinks or soda from petty shops.
Anyway one of the reason why it took few days suffering was his own abstinence from going to a doctor and having an injection. That was a wise thing on his part to have done. No injection, no medicine for cold. Just endure till it gets off you. Cold has no medicine. Just develop resistance. So next time it will not come.
Farm had some activity before 3 days of break. Now work has resumed and they are as follows;
a) Paddy was harvested. Subbu decided it shall be manual. that is good. One reason is according to him the peacocks have played in the field and paddy is not straight in many places. Machine cannot cut. you have to lift with hand and cut. Hence manual. That is good. I prefer employing labor than pouring diesel.
b) I guess total yield was 2 Bags of paddy. Each bag is 74 Kg. They paddy was separated from the straw by beating on stones. After de-husking paddy in a rice mill, it should yield half of that rice. That is around 75 KG rice. Good for an experimental farm.
c) Onions have been harvested. Total 15 KG. He is drying it in his house for safe storing. In the farm, there is no proper place. Inside the room there are rats coming. The door is not so good.
d) I guess Onion is running at Rs. 20 /- kg. We will wait till it becomes 50/- Kg and sell. Till then it has to be stored.
He said both paddy and onions are healthy in shape and size.
e) Besides there are numerous vegetables in small quantity. Time has come to sell in small quantities to visiting peddlers. I asked him to invite those ladies and offer them the small produce. Few lemon, few guava, coriander leaves, brinjal etc.... Let them sell and we learn.
f) The stone slabs for the seating arrangement has still not arrived. It seems it came with wrong thickness. The cuddapah stone ordered was to have 2 inch thick. What came was half inch. It was sent back and fresh stones have to come. We need to put solid stones otherwise it will break if some weight is placed on the table.
g) Water scarcity has started. Subbu has started crying again. I need to think for a solution. while Windpump is working fine, there is no much wind. Brinjal plants have been replanted. Now everything requires water. The climate is very very hot. Water holes are dry around the place.
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He himself gave the answer. "Sir the heat is so unbearable we drink water every 5 minutes. May be that has lodged itself in the head. " It is true I myself have experienced that. If water is pure it is ok. But people who are going out and working tend to drink lot of water from all places. Especially the "sharbath" drinks or soda from petty shops.
Anyway one of the reason why it took few days suffering was his own abstinence from going to a doctor and having an injection. That was a wise thing on his part to have done. No injection, no medicine for cold. Just endure till it gets off you. Cold has no medicine. Just develop resistance. So next time it will not come.
Farm had some activity before 3 days of break. Now work has resumed and they are as follows;
a) Paddy was harvested. Subbu decided it shall be manual. that is good. One reason is according to him the peacocks have played in the field and paddy is not straight in many places. Machine cannot cut. you have to lift with hand and cut. Hence manual. That is good. I prefer employing labor than pouring diesel.
b) I guess total yield was 2 Bags of paddy. Each bag is 74 Kg. They paddy was separated from the straw by beating on stones. After de-husking paddy in a rice mill, it should yield half of that rice. That is around 75 KG rice. Good for an experimental farm.
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| Paddy harvest in progress manually |
c) Onions have been harvested. Total 15 KG. He is drying it in his house for safe storing. In the farm, there is no proper place. Inside the room there are rats coming. The door is not so good.
d) I guess Onion is running at Rs. 20 /- kg. We will wait till it becomes 50/- Kg and sell. Till then it has to be stored.
He said both paddy and onions are healthy in shape and size.
e) Besides there are numerous vegetables in small quantity. Time has come to sell in small quantities to visiting peddlers. I asked him to invite those ladies and offer them the small produce. Few lemon, few guava, coriander leaves, brinjal etc.... Let them sell and we learn.
f) The stone slabs for the seating arrangement has still not arrived. It seems it came with wrong thickness. The cuddapah stone ordered was to have 2 inch thick. What came was half inch. It was sent back and fresh stones have to come. We need to put solid stones otherwise it will break if some weight is placed on the table.
g) Water scarcity has started. Subbu has started crying again. I need to think for a solution. while Windpump is working fine, there is no much wind. Brinjal plants have been replanted. Now everything requires water. The climate is very very hot. Water holes are dry around the place.
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