Down To Earth | November 29, 2024
There’s a Tamil saying — ‘Petra pillai kaivittalum, natta pillai sorupodum’ that means that even if your own child doesn’t look after you, the child you sowed (coconut sapling) will. In the coastal areas of the Pattukottai and Peravurani, which lie in Tamil Nadu’s Thanjavur district, several farmers are switching to coconut cultivation. Krishnan, from Tamil Nadu’s Kuruvikkarambai village, says coconut trees have been around since his grandfather’s time. But back then, there were only 50-60 trees.
