Thanneermukkom Bund - Brendanpuck
The opening of the Thanneermukkam barrage as announced by Finance Minister Thomas Isaac in his budget speech, will make a new variety of salt-tolerant rice Vyttila-6, and the cultivation practice of ‘one-paddy-onefish,’ popular in the Kuttanad area of the Vembanad wetland.But the ancestors of Vyttila-6 as well as the one-paddy-one-fish concept – the Pokkali rice cultivation – is rapidly falling prey to the developmental pressures on the Vembanad wetland.The perfectly balanced agricultural practice of one-paddy-onefish, already adopted by the Kuttanad Vikasana Samithi and a proven viable system by the Regional Agricultural Research Station (RARS) Kumarakom, was once prevalent throughout the Vembanad wetland, especially those areas, that had salt water intrusion.Unfortunately, there is very little Pokkali cultivation happening in the state now, just 967 hectares in 2009. For instance, the Moolampilly area near Kochi, which had acres of Pokkali cultivation, has just a handful of Pokkali farmers now.
The rest had to be evicted for the construction of a four-lane highway connecting the upcoming Vallarpadom Container Terminal to Kalamassery through five islands on this wetland of international importance, a Ramsar site.Sreedharan, from a family of Pokkali farmers, lost his 85 cents of land to development, yet has taken farms on lease to grow pokkali and shrimp on rotation.
Read More – A harvest of Discontent at New Indian Express
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