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Grains of Pokkali Rice on the stalk Vechoor Pokkali padam,(rice fields)Vaikkom, Kerala, India. Pokkali (Malayalam: പൊക്കാളി) is a unique saline tolerant rice variety that is cultivated using extensive aquaculture in an organic way in the water-logged coastal regions, spread in about 5000 hectares area in Alappuzha, Kottayam, Thrissur and Ernakulam districts of Kerala in ...
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Kerala Karshakan is a monthly farm magazine published by Government of Kerala undertaking Farm Information Bureau (FIB). [1] Launched in 1954, [2] it is the second oldest farm magazine in India after Indian Farming, published by ICAR. R. Heli was its first full-time editor. [3] In June 2013, FIB launched an e-journal version of Kerala Karshakan ...
The Edayur chilli is a local cultivar primarily grown in specific regions of Kerala's Malappuram district. [3] Specifically, it is cultivated in the panchayaths of Edayur , Athavanad , Marakkara , Irimbiliyam , Kalpakanchery , and Valanchery within the Valanchery block, as well as Moorkanad and Kuruva panchayaths within the Angadippuram block.
Kerala or Keralam (as it is known in the region's Malayalam language) are called ‘alam’ meaning ‘the land of’, and ‘kera’ meaning ‘coconut’. Jammed between the sea and coastal mountains, Kerala is subject to the monsoon rains that flood the land and the rice paddies on the subcontinent’s southern tip. Long growing seasons ...
Krishi Vigyan Kendra Kannur is a front-line agricultural extension center and one of the 700 KVKs financed by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR). It opened on 30 March 2004 on the premises of Pepper Research Station, Panniyoor under Kerala Agricultural University. KVK primarily works to influence the other extension systems of ...
Matta rice gives Kerala farmers a premium of Indian Rs. 300 for 500 kg of paddy. A three-year ban on the export of matta rice was partially lifted in February 2011, allowing 25,000 tonnes to be exported in 2011. [4] Palakkadan matta rice is cultivated in the dense black cotton soil of Palakkad district in Kerala. The rice has a distinct earthly ...
Lakshkerala State Horticulture Mission is a registered society set up under the Travancore Cochin Literary Scientific & Charitable Societies Registration Act 1955 to implement the National Horticulture Mission program, a centrally sponsored scheme, introduced during the financial year 2005-2006.