Mac under the Mango tree

My dear social friends, brothers and sisters ...  Vanakkam, Namaste and good day!. In this blog, I will share my real world experiencing both drought and drain as a farmer...This blog is about drought and drains that we experienced last year....  Global warming is alarming, and it is time to act on, rather than being reactive always... Background:  Last year we had severe drought in our area. It was really worst, i.e. around 4 to 6 months: i.e. from June till October, it was really worse. People had to search for drinking water and preserve for few days till they got again. In farm, we had very little water only. Existing 100+ feet well drained out completely, and all the bore-wells or boreholes ran out of water. Hence, it was very tough to maintain the farm. You could see a dying mango tree in below picture ...   During this drought period, we lost many big mango trees.  They were planted by my father. These trees were growing along with us. When we were kids, my dad planted those in

My dear social friends, brothers and sisters ...  Vanakkam, Namaste and good day!. Last month , I visited India and I will share the latest progress and latest experiences from farm. This blog is about palm trees. Two years back, I planted around 100 palm trees. Here is the old blog: https://blog.prabakarpaulsami.com/2021/11/planted-100-palm-trees-palmyra-palm.html I visited my farm, happy to see some progress and sharing the same here. The interesting fact is that, after two years of planting and waiting, I see now two leaves. :). Not all trees survived, but many survived our last year drought. It took two years, to see some visible progress as see you below. Many trees still have just one leave as you see below. Palm Trees take longer time to grow. An average growth rate is: 3 to 10 inches per year. What does it mean: This plantation is for next generation. I am sure that, I will not get any benefits from this plantation.  But, preserving/growing this tree for next generation. It is

 Hi Everyone -- I trust you, family and friends are doing well.  In this blog, I am going to share little bit about my diwali weekend activity. It was a good long weekend and it helped me to plan better. Let me add some value to our environment and society during this Diwali. Ok, what is it about? Planting Palm Trees : It is called "Panai Maram" in Tamil or Palmyra palm tree as per google.. :)  Here is the fruit from palm tree in raw form, it is called "Ice Apple". These days, people make juice (i.e. Nongu sarbath) from this and it is becoming very famous. I decided to plant around 100 trees. My day started at 5.30 am. Typically all farmers get up very early and they get into farms early. :).. Farmers work hard, farming is like serving to people.  We finished all the work by 2.00 pm. Along with Palm trees, I did plant many Neem trees too. Myself and folks working in farm, we started collecting all the palm seeds and packed in sacks. Unpacked in target place and sta