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!

A Paradise Called Coorg!

The undulating land causes the coffee and paddy lands to be nestled close to unfarmed land, protected areas and forests. Respect for tradition allows for the land formation to remain mostly unaltered.

An Estate in Coorg

The early morning air feels cool against the skin. It’s refreshing and encouraging. Love for farm life is sealed for a life time. The sights and sounds of the birds as they waft in and out of coffee areas is a delight indeed. Fresh dew drops on leaves feel wonderful to touch. At Coorg, paradise beckons! With only essential road networks, vehicle activity is reduced to a minimum around farming areas at Coorg.

Life runs slowly on most farms. Camaraderie amongst the occupants of a farm is genuine with a shared love for farm life. Hill tribes engaged in farming, occasionally take ‘time off’ from work to gather delectable ferns for lunch and to dig up edible tubers from the hinterland. The forests summon, leaving you wondering what lies concealed.

The trees are old and cragged. And they have adapted to their environment, twisting and ‘plunging’ wherever required, shaping themselves to meet the demands of the land and its flowing streams. They support life such as fungus, moss, ferns, orchids, lichen and climbers. A source of shade, they fertilize the soil, shelter birds, spiders and a coterie of insect life hitherto unseen. One can make a daily sighting of original and absorbing insect life!

The protected areas provide a haven for animal and insect life.  Inside these woods, it’s generally cool and dark with barely any sunlight. Large colonies of bees, visible from afar, adorn the trees. The sheer size of bee colonies can be stunning.

Many of these sheltered woodlands have some fundamental places of worship, maintained by the surrounding communities, thus adding allure.

The streams running by are clear, smooth, stimulating and support aquatic life. Human inhabitation in and around the farms is scarce. Springs lie undisturbed owing to limited land alteration activities.

Farmers live in homes adorned by small gardens, and evenings are quiet.  Dogs are favoured pets, the silence being punctuated by barking. Communication ‘tools’ work sparsely, keeping one’s nerves unstressed.

Being a farmer is a privilege indeed!

Coffee: Coorg's Lifeline!

Mr. Achayya Mukattira

Mr. Achayya Mukattira is a planter engaged in Corporate farming in South India for about a decade. He has worked with crops such as Tea, Coffee, Pepper, and Cardamom and possesses sound knowledge regarding landscaping and ornamental plant culture. He has been a farmer since 1996, tending a small ancestral coffee plantation in a village called Arapattu, in South Kodagu. He spends a major portion of his time on his farm and feels ‘one’ with nature during these occasions.

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