Wish you all a very happy Diwali

Gururaj Rao, barkurguru@yahoo.co.in, 02/11/2002

We wish all our relatives, friends, well wishers and also visitors of this Barkur.com,

A HAPPY FEAST OF DEEPAVALI!!

May this festival of lights bring good health, prosperity and happiness in your homes!!! With warm regards,

Bhaskar L.Poojary, Mumbai, 02/11/2002

Dear Roshu,

Raising a toast to the new heights you've reached! Way to go!!Wishing you many such successes in the future.

Neville Lobo,Wisconsin,USA ,neville@stlawrence.edu 02/11/2002

Thank you very much, Mr.James Fernandes, for your, catchy photographs, to compare both on modern / consevative / primitive ways of cultivation.  It is high time, the Govt.authorities and social

organisations, address the problems associated with small farmers in Canara.

Atleast, we can hope, though no further increase,those already engaged and wedded to fields will continue and feed us.  I can understand, the reader's of this web-pages, mostly urban, don't know much about agriculture, still can support by way of encouragement and indirect investment!

Philiph Richard  philiphpass@hotmail.com 02/11/2002

Since I do not have the mastery of communication skills,I use pictures, at times.   Let the reader decide!

I suppose, we still reap rice by hand?Back breaking job indeed.

Threshing rice in small mechanical thresher. Can we adapt to these simple devices to begin with?

Collecting bags of harvested rice. Can we go for simple  transporting appliances? These can restore our broken backbones.

Ducks kept by rice farmer to keep his crop free of weeds.They are let into the field about one month after the rice is transplanted.Will our farmers let some ducks to do the weeding? Or,  will they laugh at James Fernandes for providing such thought provoking ideas?

Did you know that monkeys are trained to pluck coconuts?Did you know I had trained my dog to catch snakes?It used to respond to my call "Divode"(snake)!

Has anyone tried growing onions in Barkur?"Change is Progress"!  The discussion on  "Co-operative farming" is a start indeed.

James Fernandes, USA, 02/11/2002.