Congratulations! Once we had sacred groves everywhere in Kerala, but we destroyed it. Now happy to see those sacred groves coming back in a new form.

Kerala is only one most amazing state of India

This type of multi- layered farming has been practiced in Kerala since ages. They were just know by a different name as mixed cropping. It's a more sustainable, less prone to debt- method for farming. With being multilayered, you are maximizing production by increasing vertical space. Not to mention the soil column's stability is directly dependant on multi- layered flora. You are less likely to be burdened by debt, because even if one crop fails you still have a lot of other products to keep you afloat

@bte_permaculture

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly!!! Thats what I said ;)

@cyrusp100

2 жыл бұрын

I've travelled all over India and it is such a shame this multi-layered forest farming is not practiced all over the country. Huge parts of the Decan plateau have hardly any trees - yet they receive more than enough rainfall to grow an arid climate food forest.

@aleenaprasannan2146

2 жыл бұрын

@@cyrusp100 I don't know the exact details, but as far as I know it's certain specific landuse laws and beurocracy that's standing in the way of clever multicropping being adopted by large scale farms. There is some kind of beurocratic obstruction in cultivating cash crops and foods crops in the same land. Besides that, it's more labor intensive and using agromechinery to harvest is impossible.

@tones_2466

Жыл бұрын

How come the large trees dont block out the sun?

@aleenaprasannan2146

Жыл бұрын

@@tones_2466 Not every crop needs full sun. A lot of crops and spices in Kerala are grown in indirect light, they'll burn in direct sun. Pepper vines are traditionally grown on coconut tree trunks, spices like cardamom, ginger, turmeric and some root crops like arrowroot, yam, taro are all crops that grow in partial sun.

Only one word can describe this place==="Heaven"

Great

Love the video

Hey, thanks for visiting ente keralam!

Excellent

Hi ,iam from this beautiful place Kerala.

Kerala❤

Wow this is beautiful

Proud to be an indian, kerala 🥰

The "Rudabega" is actually Dioscorea alata yams.

Beautiful to see traditional farmers with ancient experience and knowledge, growing tons of food in complex and diverse systems =) They should get a chainsaw though, and prune some trees, and put some heavy organic matter on that soils =D

@bte_permaculture

4 жыл бұрын

yeah true!

@davideforesti7556

3 жыл бұрын

Com’on Gennaro! Leave them alone, they know what they are doing don’t worry...XD

@cyrusp100

2 жыл бұрын

​@@davideforesti7556 No they don't Davide. I have travelled throughout India and unfortunately heavy mulching with organic matter is still not commonly practiced. Over many years the soil becomes less and less fertile. Then tragically all the trees are cut down and the farmer switches to annual cropping with chemical pesticides/fertilisers because they think that will increase their income.

@jacktucker2371

2 жыл бұрын

Haha. I love how the boys have rolled in. Mulching is definitely under practiced over here. but it looks like they’ve got a fair amount of material established through natural dropp. I’m hooked on this Agrob forestry philosophy though. Hoping I can get involved in a project in India god willing

Which is that beautiful folk song at the end ? Can someone pls tell

berry yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Can we please get a super rough estimate for the revenue from this farm/forest? Annual, biannual, anything.

@kashyabguruvar5065

4 жыл бұрын

Lower as compared to mono crop culture. But as it involves very low or no fertilisers and pesticides the net sum while will yield profit.

@cyrusp100

2 жыл бұрын

@@kashyabguruvar5065 Also it involves very little labour. So it frees up the farmer's time to do other things like writing software :)

@winter_silhouette

10 ай бұрын

​@@cyrusp100we're truly on the way to become techno-peasants.

Looks like they could have some more varieties of fruits, like mango, white sapote, tamarind, Mamey sapote, for examples.

@Jahmastasunherbalist

4 жыл бұрын

@Ann Ts I didn't see any white sapote, or mamey sapote when i was there last year.

@cyrusp100

2 жыл бұрын

I wish they planted a lot more nitrogen fixing trees and used it for mulch - that soil looked very bare.

@dv9239

2 жыл бұрын

The soil is very wet in Kerala state so not so great for mangoes

@dv9239

2 жыл бұрын

@@cyrusp100 moringa/drumstick trees are actually good for nitrogen fixing so they are covered

@cyrusp100

2 жыл бұрын

@@dv9239 Moringa doesn't fix nitrogen

Its like traditional assamese-tripura style farming.

Ahhh what a dream come true

Where is this location

@keralanaturelover196

3 жыл бұрын

Kerala south india land

🌴🌳🎄🎋

My own Kerala...

That kid is very sweet! Can I eat it 😸 no 😹

How do we know that she is not applying chemical fertilizers and pesticides?

@amillison

4 жыл бұрын

Why would she lie?

@sivad7266

4 жыл бұрын

We can grow plants without fertilizers...

@thomasranjit7781

4 жыл бұрын

Her word is her bond..

@bte_permaculture

4 жыл бұрын

How do we know that you are human?

@sumitbhattacharya4402

3 жыл бұрын

Good question, but another most important question is whether using hybrid seeds or desi seeds

I dond undersdand a lod of dis video

I didn't people eat taro😱😱

One more or two more..ok 😅😅😂😂🎉🎉❤

Westerns came up Permaculture concept(1970) , completely oblivious to the fact that the concept has been practiced since ages in India, we just call it sustainable farming., its a war of narrative where west has tried to market and make money, example : Basmati rice, grown and consumed by people of India and now Pakistan since ages has been patented by US company as theirs 🤣🤣 , Check the price of permaculture course in US/US/Australia and you will be surprised.😁

This forest system recorded in Tamil Sangam Literature

Coffee,Coco are not indigenous!!! Title misleading.

@cyrusp100

2 жыл бұрын

This system of food forest is indigenous - the title is not misleading.

@rahulajayan5546

Жыл бұрын

looks like this comment is misleading