The Benefits of
Mixed Farming.
The basics of agriculture teach mixed
farming. The fertility of the soil is maintained by sowing a different
crop in between regular crops. When the farmers grow paddy, for
instance, sugarcane is sometiems grown between two crops of
paddy.
ThirunaRaiyUr's rich agricutural heritage
is sung by kaliyan.
The tillers grow paddy amidst regular
sugarcane crops. The lotus grows side by side. However, due to the
original sugarcane land, it comes up automatically without being voluntarily
sown.
The efforts taken to bring up the red
paddy yileds but even before that the sugarcane crops become standing in front
in an imposing manner.
The water resources and the fertility of
the soil enables this rich agriculture occupation at
thirunaRaiyUr.
It also emphasises the fact that mixed
farming was being practised in those days. Perhaps, it is all the more necessary
in today's concept of scarcity of water.
The pAsuram describing this
:
"sEr thazahitha kadhir
sen-nel sen-kamalath idai-idaiyin,
pAr thazahithu-k
karumbOngi payan viLaikkum thirunaRaiyUr.." 6-9-7;
dAsan
vanamamalai
padmanabhan
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