On Saturday, the 85-acre Mulavanakari padasekharam (paddy field) at Muttar in Kuttanad will go under combine harvesters. The harvest signals the culmination of more than four months of hard work of 53 farmers and marks 20 years of successful pesticide-free rice farming.
In a region where chemical pesticides are extensively used in paddy fields and a considerable portion of which enters the waterbodies, Mulavanakari padasekharam is one of the few exceptions.
