Team Goemkarponn
CANACONA: Second season in a row, students and faculty of Govt High School Gaval-Khola in Canacona have harvested Paddy cultivated and sowed in the school compound 4 months ago.
It was the hard toil, students assisted by staff (adults) members of the school themselves ventured upon with sickles first to cut the paddy and later complete all the harvesting procedure.
Continouing for the second year, school staff and students themselves raised the nursery and transplanted the paddy crop at the end of June month including the tasks of ploughing and Sowing processes.
‘infact, the ploughing, land-leveling, Seed selection and Sowing, transplantation, harvesting, thrashing, and winnowing is carried out by the students and thoroughly assisted by hard-working school staff’, informed a teacher Vishant Bandekar.
‘duringthe period, the students under the guidance of teachers, even carried out watering whenever required, adding manure, cleaning and removing the weeds amongst others necessities, were carried out.’, School HM Gautami dessai said.
By October, the paddy field began to show the ripened paddy givinga golden look in the entire area, and the students and staff took up the tasks of harvesting and threshing. It was sight where not on the staff but the children seems to enjoy the unigue pleasure of reaping the crop planted by them in june, a process as to how the rice crop is cultivated and reaped.
With most and many students coming from either farmers and fishermen community, with many of these families having abandoned farming, the all imported knowledge of how food is produced and what are the efforts needed to generate food stuff is provided to the children.
School HM Gautami Desai, teacher Vishant Bandekar, other teachers parents including Yeshwari Vaiz gave practical knoeldge to the students about the rice farming.
Interestingly, Agriculture is taught in the school as special subject, and right infront of the school, the fallow land is practically cultivated for paddy crop, imparting all the knowledge to the students.