Rice variety cultivated by Late Cherkady Ramachandra Rao

 The following paragraph's are from an interview of Cherkady Ramachandra Rao which came in https://www.goodnewsindia.com/index.php/Magazine/story/cherkady-natural-farmer/.

"One morning, I stopped in my tracks. A sturdy plant of rice, ripe with grains stood in my way. How had I missed it all these days? Where had it come from? Where it stood was no wetter than other parts of the farm and my land was by means abundant in water. I had certainly, not planted it. It was unlike any paddy I had known. It had buxom grains on 16 strands, all on one stem. It stood alone glistening in the morning sun. 

"I was overwhelmed. I took it home and shook it. There was close to a kilo of grains from that one plant! And so began my rice harvest year after year. I scattered the seeds on unploughed land, spread leaves and manure and watered it by hand. There was no attempt at flooding the patch. Slowly, the patch grew wider but it was never more than a tenth of an acre. All it called for was one man's labour for three days in a season. That was enough to feed our family of five continually, for forty years.

On reading above, I was fascinated by the simplicity of this rice farming. Since this paddy was cultivated in upland thought this variety may suit me also. I was also looking to be self sufficient in rice which we eat for lunch and dinner. I had phone number of Cherkady's elder son Manjinath Rao and talked to him but he was not aware of the details of the variety.

I was in touch with Shravyak Patil who had written a book called Paddy man of Karnataka, and he was also not aware of this rice variety.

Recently came in contact with a person called Sathyanarayana Beleri who conserves more than 650 rice seeds. He received Padmashree from Indian Government for his contibution in rice seed conservation. I just casually checked him if he knew Ramachandra Rao, so he says he started rice seed conservation after finding an article about Ramachandra Rao and he asked for rice seeds  from him and he sent some samples of Rajakayama variety. I was happy to hear this since I finally found the rice seed which I was looking for. He sent me also some seeds, I have kept this in refrigerator, will be trying out in next rainy season.