Category: Nature / Environment

** Gadag: YouTube channel transforms life of teacher, now a successful farmer

Erappa had completed MA degree and started working as a guest lecturer in different colleges including Gadag and Mulgund. But he soon found out that the petty salary he received from these colleges was grossly insufficient for a living. Erappa therefore wanted to do something. When he was watching a YouTube channel on his mobile phone, he found the stories of a few farmers who became successful in growing roses. By watching YouTube channels further, he gathered details about raising roses.

Erappa then contacted the department of horticulture and started to cultivate roses in the two and half acres of land that he had inherited. The teacher who was earning a few thousand rupees per month began to get Rs 30,000 profit per month. He has been earning three to four lac rupees through this profession per year now.

** Kundapur: Kulanje Puttaiah Naika’s rare achievement of all-season vegetable farming

Puttaiah Naika, resident of Kulanje Mavinakoodlu under Shankaranarayana Gram panchayat limits of the taluk has made a niche for himself in the field of agriculture by implementing reformed agricultural methods and growing vegetables all-round the year. In addition to agriculture he is doing horticulture also.

Mavinakoodlu is a remote area. The land owned by Naika is also not that fertile. It is a downhill area with stones and quarry. But by doing vegetable farming on such a land, Naika has shown that in front of human effort, everything else is negligible.

** ‘Mara Mitra’ app launched

The app was simultaneously launched in nine districts of Karnataka where volunteers of Cauvery Calling are working with Karnataka Forest Department and 890 Mara Mitras.

Chief Secretary P Ravi Kumar on Thursday launched the Mara Mitra (a tree’s friend) app, created by Cauvery Calling, as part of a series of initiatives being undertaken for an afforestation drive along the Cauvery basin.

** Postal Department releases special postal cover on Appe Midi

The postal department has given national-level importance and fame to Appe Midi, one of the rare varieties of mango found in the Malnad region and used for pickles, by releasing a special postal cover at Press Trust here on Tuesday. The Postmaster General, South Karnataka DSVR Murthy released the poster.

** Unkal Lake in Karnataka’s Hubballi to be finally renamed as Channabasava Sagara

Important locations in Hubballi city are being named after great Saints, who stayed or visited here and guided the people to lead better lives. After Hubballi Railway Station, which was renamed as Shree Siddharoodha Swamiji Railway Station, well-known Unkal lake will be named as Channabasava Sagara.

Spread over 750 acres between Hubballi-Dharwad twin cities, Unkal Lake is one of the best picnic spots that attracts hundreds of people every day. Earlier, Hubballi city used to draw drinking water from this water body. After the Malaprabha river water project was initiated, the Unkal lake was left idle and later developed as a picnic spot.

** Mangaluru: New look, old style of Bunder North station

Bunder police station, the landmark brick-red heritage building on Azizuddin Road in Mangaluru, is looking fresh and new, its coat of old-world charm intact.

Located near the Old Port, the 132-year-old police station is the city’s last standing police station established during the colonial era, and is built in typical colonial-style architecture, with a gabled roof and high ceiling.

The busy Azizuddin Road and the adjoining lanes make up the busy commercial area of Bunder, where buildings and walls are built in grainy Mangalore brick. You can smell the sea salt here.

** New plant found in Tumakuru takes the district’s name

B. tumakurense comes from a tuber and belongs to the Apocynaceae family of flowering plants.

A new plant of the Brachystelma R.Br. species has been found in Tumakuru, and has been named after the district from where its type material was collected. ‘B. tumakurense’ comes from a tuber and belongs to the Apocynaceae family (a family of flowering plants).

The findings were published recently in ‘RHEEDEA Journal of the Indian Association for Angiosperm Taxonomy’ by Gundappa B.V. from the Wildlife Aware Nature Club, Tumakuru; Sringeswara A.N. and Vishwanath S. from the University of Agricultural Sciences (UAS), GKVK Campus – Bengaluru; and P. Venu from the Environment Protection Training and Research Institute – Hyderabad.

** Udupi: Veteran ‘kaddayi’ artiste Guruva Koraga passes away at 105

Hailing from Guddeangadi of Hiriyadka, Guruva started playing kaddayi (dollu) at the age of 12 years. He was also into farming and weaving baskets.

He was recognized at the national level in 1988 through Mangaluru Akashavani. He had dedicated his life to conservation of rich heritage and culture. He worked hard for the conservation of tribal cultures.