My Experiments With Farming

Thursday, February 5, 2026

Rice variety cultivated by Late Cherkady Ramachandra Rao

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 The following paragraph's are from an interview of Cherkady Ramachandra Rao which came in  https://www.goodnewsindia.com/index.php/Maga...
Thursday, November 27, 2025

Trying traditional rice variety chuvanna modan in grow bag

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  27-Nov-2025 Chuvanna modan varity seeds were kept in cowdung water for 24 hours and sown

Trying traditional paddy variety Erumakkari in grow bag

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 I took 11 seeds of Erumakkari rice variety and put in cowdung water for 24 hours and then sown in a grow bag. This is to multiply and get m...
Wednesday, November 26, 2025

Small variety taro

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 I keep cultivating a small variety of taro which I like very much. Wild boars don't this at the beginning, but when no other food is av...

Finding seeds of a traditional paddy variety called Erumakkari

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I first heard about this traditional paddy variety from a neighbor grandma whom I met during 2013 Onam Holidays.  She had cultivated many tr...
Monday, November 10, 2025

Controlling weeds using tarpaulin sheet

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  Weed control has been very challenging and farmers use weed control mat or weed fabric etc. They use it in raised beds and also between fr...
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Tool to cut branches of support species and timber trees

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I grow lot of support species for mulch creating and shade in the farm. Shade is very critical for me since the summer is very harsh and no ...
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Nandakumar
Palakkad, Kerala, India
I was born and brought up in Trichur,Kerala and did my engineering in Electronics & communication. I was working in Embedded Software field in Bangalore for the last 18 years. Recently quit the full time job and relocated to Palakkad,Kerala. I am a partner in the Electronic hardware and software design services company called Anehas Technovations (www.anehastech.com). I also do natural farming in my 9.44 acres of land in Palakkad for the last 10 years and is in the process of making a sustainable income from farming. Right now I am part time farmer and spends a day in a week in farming and hence there are not much to see in the farm. This blog is about my farming related experiments/experiences. My family consists of my wife,mother and two kids - daughter 21 years and son 16 years years. Contact - +91-80-89639261. Email - p_k_nandanan@yahoo.com
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