Padkai Farming

  • It is a tribal practice of creating small beds by cutting into, scooping out and flattening of the hillsides for paddy plantation.
  • Across the Western Ghats, tribal farmers are known to have cultivated rice in this way.
  • Since 2010, Padkai has been introduced in the list of works to be undertaken in the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme ....
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