"So now a days what's the routine Subbu" - i asked. That was the starting point of coversation. I knew there is no activity at present due to extremely high temperature.
"Sir myself and Kandan are in the farm only under the shade. It is very bright Sun and there is no hope of rain. Atleast here in farm there is some coolness compared to our home. So we are here". It was around 12 Noon when I called on Subbu.
Our daily routine is as follows;
a) Watering the plants from the megere water that gets collected in the windmill tank, mostly at night.
b) Fertilizing using Panjagavya / Jeevamrutham (Just codung+Jaggery) . I asked if there is steady supply of cowdung.
"Yes one of the lady staff has cowdung at home. We need to bring in a tracktor. Earlier she used to bring daily and was a problem. I told to accumulate so that we can bring in one tracktor" said Subbu. I told cowdung should be fresh. He nodded. I also asked him to pay her equal to market rate. Around 1000/- per traktor load.
c) Working around the banana plantations. It is so hot in the day time the hoe work should be done in evening or morning.
d) Irrigating the individual plants with plastic container (kudam). From windmill around 30 to 40 pot full of water is obtained daily. This is manually poured to the plants like casurina in turns.
e) The fertiliser pit is still not ready. The banana waste is yet to turn into manure. Extreme dry weather is one of the reason.
The conversation turned gradully into food adultration, food poison and globalisation. We talked about WTO agreement where India is loosing. He understood all of that and felt very sorry why local people are just living the day without worrying about anything happening around them.
Recently the WTO has urged developing nations not to stock grains, but to throw them to open market for competition. If that happens, there will be no (subsidised rice) ration. India has to have Public Stockholding for Food Security Purposes and and if this is not allowed more people will go poor ultimately ending their life. Agriculture will die unable to face global competition. All these can be mitigated if the Government promotes agriculture. Which they have not and consistently agriculture has been ignored.
We talked about the edible oil, the lobby behind it, the content of the oil thereof, the meaning of blending, the real purpose of double refining oil, cancer causing agents and ill effects of reuse of heated oil. We concluded we need to manufacture our own oil. For him he just goes to nearby mill and crushes farm grown coconut for oil. They use Coconut oil and Palm oil for cooking. We also touched upon the global commerce behind palm oil.
It was a fruitful conversation. Atleast he will influence few people on healthy food.
"Sir myself and Kandan are in the farm only under the shade. It is very bright Sun and there is no hope of rain. Atleast here in farm there is some coolness compared to our home. So we are here". It was around 12 Noon when I called on Subbu.
Our daily routine is as follows;
a) Watering the plants from the megere water that gets collected in the windmill tank, mostly at night.
b) Fertilizing using Panjagavya / Jeevamrutham (Just codung+Jaggery) . I asked if there is steady supply of cowdung.
"Yes one of the lady staff has cowdung at home. We need to bring in a tracktor. Earlier she used to bring daily and was a problem. I told to accumulate so that we can bring in one tracktor" said Subbu. I told cowdung should be fresh. He nodded. I also asked him to pay her equal to market rate. Around 1000/- per traktor load.
c) Working around the banana plantations. It is so hot in the day time the hoe work should be done in evening or morning.
d) Irrigating the individual plants with plastic container (kudam). From windmill around 30 to 40 pot full of water is obtained daily. This is manually poured to the plants like casurina in turns.
e) The fertiliser pit is still not ready. The banana waste is yet to turn into manure. Extreme dry weather is one of the reason.
The conversation turned gradully into food adultration, food poison and globalisation. We talked about WTO agreement where India is loosing. He understood all of that and felt very sorry why local people are just living the day without worrying about anything happening around them.
Recently the WTO has urged developing nations not to stock grains, but to throw them to open market for competition. If that happens, there will be no (subsidised rice) ration. India has to have Public Stockholding for Food Security Purposes and and if this is not allowed more people will go poor ultimately ending their life. Agriculture will die unable to face global competition. All these can be mitigated if the Government promotes agriculture. Which they have not and consistently agriculture has been ignored.
We talked about the edible oil, the lobby behind it, the content of the oil thereof, the meaning of blending, the real purpose of double refining oil, cancer causing agents and ill effects of reuse of heated oil. We concluded we need to manufacture our own oil. For him he just goes to nearby mill and crushes farm grown coconut for oil. They use Coconut oil and Palm oil for cooking. We also touched upon the global commerce behind palm oil.
It was a fruitful conversation. Atleast he will influence few people on healthy food.
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