C.V. Mathew, a traditional pokkali farmer at Kumbalanghi, recalls how things were decades ago.
His forefathers nursed the paddy so well that they received bumper harvests in return. But the labour-intensive variety of paddy is losing traction among farmers now.
K.A. Thomas, a pokkali farmer at Kadamakudy, which is around 30 km north of Kumbalanghi, counts the bags of unsold pokkali rice from last year’s harvest stored in a room.
