Hittala Gida Maddalla (Ghar ki murgi daal barabar)

This is the saying in kannada which means the plant in the kitchen garden is not a medicine. The inner meaning of this is, normally one will not give much importance to which he has already possessed. The hindi saying "Ghar ki murgi dhaal barabhar" may be apt for this situation.
What I am narrating is the personal experience of being Ghar ki murgi. I am a graduate in agriculture and now working in Mumbai. My brothers are practicing farming in my native place, a village in Karnataka. This year they are taking up the banana crop. They called me to tell about some disease and pest attack on the crop. After listening to the symptoms, I was sure that the crop was attacked by the banana weevil and advised them to inject monocrotophos-a systemic insecticide- with specific dose.
In the mean time, a consultunt- mind, not a agri. graduate- visited the village. My brother went to take his suggestion-despite having a agri. graduate brother- and told him about my prescription. The consultant asked him to follow my prescription only on 10 plants and wait for the result for 10 days. If it doesn't work he would suggest his own medicine.
So, finally my brother is taking trial on 10 plants instead of whole plantation, there by loosing the potential yield.


I think this is human nature of not valuing the thing which they have with them.

Regards
veda

Teach India

I was always inclined towards teaching those children who are kept away from the modern day education. Therefore, whenever I visit my native place, I make a point to visit the school ( with inefficient teachers) and teach students some basic mathematics and english. This is the bit I am doing towards creating modern rural India. So, today when I read the Times of India, about the youngsters involving in Teach India, I felt very happy. These are the real heroes of our Nation who need to be carefully nurtured. Hope many more will emerge.

Regards

Vedamurthy