FARMING CABBAGE HEADS: UN-TIMING THE AWAKENING

By Dr. R Sudarshan

Growing cabbages is a wholesome experience for an organic farmer. First attempt - they are eaten up by insects and customers even find annoying baby snails when they cut them open. The second attempt - you grow marigold to divert insects but they overtake cabbages and the heads can't be bigger than your fist. Third - you grow greens around, deflect the worms from grazIng and hand clean each one on-site to remove the insects.

Somehow, you learn hand-raising cabbages, and finally, over 100 heads sit pretty on the farm floor. The other farmers in the village amaze at the succulent bounty in a chemical-free landscape.

But then, for two weeks continuously, you can't sell even one cabbage head and you are clueless about the totality of market decline.

Failure, success, perfection and rejection. You have finally achieved a beautiful wrong thing at a wrong time.

Cabbage is a multi-layered mess.

For any relevant query, message 81051 12990.

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Padma Farms, Farmer's House, # 1A - 13th Cross, Kalidasa Road, VV Mohalla, Mysore.

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