Tulunadina besaya padathi

The old tradition of Tulunadina baesaya had three types of  cultivation - example yenilu , suggi and kolake .The yenilu cultivation stars in the rainy season preferable in the month of June and ready to harvest in the the month of October.Immediately after the harvest they start to cultivate suggi , after harvesting the suggi immediately they start  kolake .Yenilu cultivation depends on rain water , the suggi and kolake is through irrigation .There are three types of paddy fields . They are bettu gadde , majalu gadda and bailu gadde . In bettu gadde  yenilu besaya means yearly one crops are cultivated , second majalu gadde  two times are cultivated  and bailu gadde three times crop are cultivated . In bettu gadde only rain water is used ,in majalu gadde  along with rain water ,if there is shortage of water they use yettak ie pane ie traditional way of irrigation . In bailu gadde irrigation provision use to be there. For plowing they were using buffalo or bull, and for that they use the tool by name  negilu which is made from wood .

                       First they were seeding in the field with cow mannure . The seeds will take one month to become a plant . The grown up plants which they used to call as  negi  .The so called negi is removed the original place and  it will be planted by manually in a well plowed field . When they are planting , they used to plant  two three plants together keeping a distance of three to four inches gap between the plants . Before planting they use cowdang and ash as its manure .In the growing period they used to maintain water level in the field regularly .  

Padimancha

        

 After three months growing period the plant  is ready to harvest . The  plant along with paddy is gathered  and it will be removed in the  courtyard by using  padimancha  by beating the plants to separate Paddy . The paddy is dryed for 2 or 3 days , cleaned and stored in  a place called tuppe. When ever they get right  time in summer season they use to make it as rice . In this they make three types of rice by name kuchilu ie boiled rice , arebolanthe ie half boiled rice and the third one is bolanthe ie  white rice.

Tuppa