A change is underway. People are opting more and more for traditionally grown organic produce. On a visit to Swaminathan Research Foundation, Puthurvayal, Kalpetta, I saw a ‘festival of seeds’ in full swing. Traditional farmers who have protected age old crops from extinction, exhibiting roots, tubers, fruits, grains, cereals, seeds, organic pesticides, and ancient fertilizers – a wealth of knowledge. The festival concludes tomorrow evening. Seeing the amount of conservation these traditional, marginal (some of them illiterate in the modern sense) farmers have done, craving neither award nor reward, I am humbled and awed. Every word of practical knowledge, a treasure emerging from their lips! Patiently, without ego or expectation, they share the vanishing knowledge with us. In them, one can feel the love of Nature for all humanity.
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