Pearl Millet Fields

I got stuck with a tight schedule of 4 months and unable to publish any posts. Recently i have visited my village where i saw pearl millet fields which was looking beautiful. Then i google'd about the millet cultivation and found that African countries cultivate millet in large numbers.

Millet consumption was high during olden days where the people led a healthy life. Now a days these sort of grain consumption is very less and consumed as medicines or health drinks with various ingredients and preservatives.

Pumping station

Age old water pumping station:
Age old typical water pumping station build during british rule in india. Ages ago there were no electric motors in use to water plants or crops. Only diesel engines were used to suck the water from the river. The disadvantage of diesel engines were not powerful enough to pump the water to a longer distance. So our grandpa's decided to built a station which can pump the water with out any mechnical device. As a result, the below shown pumping station was designed and built.

Pumping station working concept:
Water will be sucked from the river using diesel engine and hiked to the top of the pumping station which has a small tank at the top which will then release the water. The speed of the released water was speed enough to reach a longer distance.

Day before the Harvest

149th Day of my Paddy field:

manchinbele trekking - with my team

manchinbele trekking photos

The cobra snake

The below shows a alive cobra snake which i found close to my house. This was comparatively very small and its very young too.

River Amaravathi which runs in my backyard

Our Paddy Field on 70th day