Wayanad

The 11-year-old grows over 30-odd types of fruits including fig, pulasan, durian, baraba, gooseberry, custard apple and sapota and most vegetables like Chinese cauliflower, bajji chilli, carrot, beetroot, cabbage, green chilli etc.

The Kuruchiya tribe depends on a mineral-rich spring to meet their irrigational requirements and practices traditional methods of farming that do not involve any use of chemically processed fertilisers and pesticides.

This will help small-scale farmers get a sustainable income and avoid getting exploited by middlemen.

Though they have so much going for them; good fresh unpolluted air, chemical-free produce year long, and a higher quality of life, they seemed to take great pride in telling people that their daughter would be marrying a city dweller.

During summers, Kunjiraman and Pushpa live on the hill to lend undivided attention towards the crops and since there is no provision for irrigation, they have to carry water from a km away and then trudge all the way to the top to water the plants.

Stretching over 6,000 square metres, the 500 kWp (kilowatt peak) solar plant is a mega project commissioned by Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) on a measly budget of ₹9.25 crore.

A student from Muttil village’s WMO English Academy in Wayanad, Didhul will teach the grown men how to make furniture from banana fibre and be accompanied by his father.

Though many places in the state were addressed with anglicised monikers during the periods of colonialism, the last few decades have seen most of them reverting to their to colloquial titles.

The last crop harvested by Joseph at the beginning of the month resulted in over 6,000 heads of cabbage, pristine and unscathed by toxic elements.

The pepper heartland of Wayanad in Kerala is expecting a surge in its pepper productivity through a special model.