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PADDY MAN- Untold story of Cherkady Gandhi
paddy man working in his laboratory with minimization, which could be seen in his use of materials of lab and his dress. use of water manure is not only less but only when required. Lab spread across 1.5  acres of land, no harm - no explosion from the lab but only grunting sound, it runs with 0 capital and 1 man labor. nothing fishy I 'am writing the right one where the lab is not to mix the chemicals and bring out the formulas but to put the new thinking and get the happiness.

This is the general description of the farm of Ramachandra Rao aka cherkady Gandhi awardee of krishi pandit (award given to farmers for their new innovation in farming field in  Karnataka-India) lab is full of spontaneous greenery and one couldn't see the richness of farm as it look like a abandoned forest,  but this lab has no weeds in it. It was not easy as I explained here because the richness of farm has seen many hurdles and passing it becomes difficult when the hurdles is by nature it self. Gandhi planned to have farm in the land which is forbidden by villagers and had no basic facilities like water and road which is considered as the basic requirements to a farm. every breeze of flowering melody has the dusky smell of sweat, every red rose has dropped blood from cut, every path of the land could recognize the bare footed saint, as he is the only single owner- labor of it for decades.

when you scroll back the situation to 5 decades back you only could find the dry broken land, dry leaves and sharp sun rays which makes you to leave the place in minutes. One could find the trees which can survive by rain water and such cursed land given by his brother in law for rent, every villagers mocked Rao when he was working in the land and same people pated on his back for his achievements.

Childhood --Cherkady lost his parents as a toddler and came to small village of coastal Karnataka, 20km away from city of temple Udupi, called cherkady. Worked with his brother in law as a helper in his farm.

School to farm ---Has done his primary education in nearby school R.K Patkar and got enough education to read and understand Kannada.

Inspiration---Then school head master Ramachandra Patil filled lot of inspiration and courage, his basic tools was Gandhi -swaraj and self reliance. boycotted the school at 3rd standard and joined his brother in law's farming activity as full time worker. as a result the farm became the live example for Gandhi's simplicity and fukavoka's technology.

Food Clothing and Gandhi --- Inspired by Gandhi's speech he started to learn sewing and brought the wool to home and prepared dress for his own use and family, excess to sell in the market. his earning from it poured to land which returned nothing to him.

Dry land to cherkady crop---cherkady lost everything as the return from land was zero and lost his interest in farming as his chilly farm dried-up due to climatical variation. Cherkady stops his work in field and continued his cloth sewing activity and when he visited the farm after 2 month surprise is waiting to him beside the chilly farm with green leaves and golden colored paddy. A rice paddy grown spontaneously by extracting the manure given to chilly farm, this given the idea to Gandhi to develop the Cherkady Crop which could be grown with out water filled fields which is considered as the only one procedure to grow the rice paddy of that time. cherkady has proved that the age old procedure as wrong one and he showed to the society that the farmer of hilltop could grow the rice for his domestical use.

Cherkady later honored by krishi Pandita and few more award and recognitions  for his great work in the field of agriculture.

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cherkady gandhi

cherkady ramachandra

cherkady crop