Paradise India: Village

After a very long time, I am now updating my farm with my recent visit to Trichy (Tiruchirappalli). I would say Trichy is a very big city and has all the qualities of the metro. I think it should be fourth largest city after Chennai, Madurai and Coimbatore. I went to a farm which is very near to this place where they have cultivated more number of mango trees. I also found some neem trees and few other trees. It was my first experience visiting a very good farm house of this type. It is such a huge farm of around 200 acres of land and wide variety of plantation. I should thank my father for getting such a nice experience like this. I have seen so many new things like drip irrigation, vermicompost, dairy farm and also cattle breeding. We had spent around 4 hours in thefarm and have enjoyed a lot. Also, I have relaxed so much and good peace of mind.

Dairy and cattle breeding

Vermiculture

Drip irrigation

They have a solar fencing around the farm which will help trespassers and other animals which come inside the farm. This solar fencing will not harm but will give a mild shock. This drip irrigation is something will help save water and channel the water properly to all the plants cultivated. There will not be any wastage of water as well. The vermicompost is a method for composting using earthworm called as vermiculture. The organic matter which is used for plants as a Biofertilizer, this will help avoiding the chemical fertilizers which are not good for health.

Last week I had an opportunity to visit a village near Thanjavur (Tanjore). The name of the village is Variyankaval. This is my wife’s grand pa's place. We went from Bangalore to Tanjore by train. From Tanjore we have hired a taxi to reach that place. There is no wonder that Tanjore is rice bowl or rice granary of Tamil Nadu. Everywhere I see the green paddy fields and it has created a pleasant mood in my mind. The roads are not too good as expected since there is no much development in those places. Ah! We have reached the house after a short travel of 2hrs. In that place I had seen very little amount of Houses which are constructed with full covering ceiling. Most of the houses are covered on the top by potsherd tiles, few houses are very old than I expected. We had a plan to stay that night in the House. I never thought before that people can live in these kinds of titled houses.

Later the next day I wanted to start little early, but when I came out in the morning I saw cotton and silk weaving are done in hand. Surprised to see this after a long time, but still people in India prepares handloom saree and cloths. The initial process is to make the design, color and the border of the saree. Next, to move ahead with the process of separating the thread which are entangled each other. Next decision is to make how many saree in one go, in that way it is been stretched for a long distance and they use different technology to separate the cotton thread which is entangled each other. This process will create parallel threads in a long run and they will fold. Once the fold is done they use a handmade machine with lot of connections to it. This is used to intersect the parallel thread with the other thread to make the complete over view of the cloth. Please see the below images which will help you to understand better.