Archive for the ‘Culture’ Category

In Kodava villages, traditionally, buffalos have been used extensively to plough paddy fields. These bovines are also made to walk on the straw in order to segregate the same from the paddy. (more…)

Farming anywhere is a joy and the same applies enormously in Coorg. The farmer is privileged with ecstatic and inspiring environs, sights, sounds and feelings! (more…)

Used as a spice in cuisines all across the globe, cloves are harvested mainly in India, Indonesia, Madagascar, Zanzibar, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, and when they are 1.5–2 cm in length. (more…)

Paddy cultivation is close to the heart of the traditional Coorg farmer. Every farming household grows rice, mostly for domestic consumption. Land suitable for rice cultivation is called ‘bael’ or ‘bhoomi’ in local parlance, and almost revered. (more…)

Diversification or adding possible revenue sources is popular in farm operations, what with Livestock farming becoming second nature to the average Kodava coffee farmer! Availability of space to house livestock and sufficient grazing land is an advantage here. (more…)

Robusta coffee is grown in Coorg, especially in its southern region. The more vigorous of the two commercially cultivated varieties, it is also less expensive to retain. (more…)

Prior to growing crops of any sort, the tribals take certain precautions, knowing fully well that cultivation is an arduous task on account of wild elephants that eat their crops and parakeets that eat grains. Among other such ‘pests’ on the tribals’ field are the Wild Boar, Bison and Deer.

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Tribals being denizens of the forest, change their homes frequently. They build two or three homes a year as the moisture that collects in their homes invites termites who build their mounds there. (more…)

Coorg is known for its coffee and also for pepper, the ‘king of spices’. But apart from this ‘king’, the ‘queen of spices’, cardamom is also grown in some of the estates limited  to valleys or areas where there is an assured supply of water for irrigation during the summer months. (more…)

Being labour-intensive, growing coffee, like all agricultural activities, involves employing a large workforce of a mostly unskilled nature. (more…)