Mangaluru: Amai Mahalinga Rises (in PIC), illiterate workers but skilled, credited by changing a piece of barren soil into a full farm in Kepu Village, near Adyanadka, about 50 km from Mangaluru, has been selected for the four highest Indian civil awards, Shri Padma , for its contribution to agriculture.
When contacted, immediately after the award list was published on Tuesday, up, around 70, not understanding about his choice for awards, but said that he was happy to be chosen for it.
He remembered Mahabala Bhat, who gave him a barren hill peak in the 70s.
Like a ‘Suranga’ man, he was first recognized by the Varashi Development and Research Foundation, Adyanadka.
Shree Padre, Agricultural Expert and Editor, ‘Adike Patrike’, an agricultural magazine, said he was a classic case of optimism and determination.
“He developed sustainable resources and lives from zero.
Today he has a good park, water resources and sustainable agriculture made man-made man.
For me, he is a one-person soldier on a hilltop.
But for his thin optimism and determination , Green plants could not be developed.
When he digs down after a failed Suranga, the people mocked him, “Shree Padre said, who followed the work rose for several years.
Surangas is a tunnel that enters deep into hard laterite stones, to reach ground water, where water runs on a small flow, without using the pump.
Rise increasingly improvised traditional Surangas, by creating a small reservoir.
“It was after the fifth or sixth effort that he got water.
If someone evaluates his work in terms of human day, his small garden, plantation Areca, revetment, and land work, will amount to several thousand people.
The hard work he has done, serves the model for all People.
He doesn’t have bad or negative things to say about other people.
He is a coconut harvester who falls from a tree, and has to spend a lot of money being hospitalized Only He has planted 300 arecanut palms, coconut trees, banana trees, pepper and cocoa plants on the ground.