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Bhattada Thene

ಭತ್ತದ ತೆನೆ

A seed-to-seed workshop series that gives school children one full monsoon season of hands-on paddy farming.

Harvested paddy stacked at the workshop site

Growing the next generation of farmers

Bhattada Thene is a unique seed-to-seed workshop series that brings young agriculturists into the picture. It gives school children aged 10 to 15 practical farming experience.

Students monitor sowing, harvesting and grain separation themselves as each stage happens, which trains them through one complete monsoon agriculture practice.

Seed to seed

What students do

  1. SowingStudents sow the paddy at the start of the monsoon.
  2. MonitoringThey watch the crop grow, in real time.
  3. HarvestingThey harvest and thresh the paddy by hand.
  4. Grain separationThey clean and keep seed for the next sowing.

Photos

From the workshops

Students sorting and packing paddy seed
Families and students watching the threshing
Students and teachers threshing paddy at a wooden bench
Harvested paddy stacked at the workshop site
Students cleaning seed grain in a basin
Students seated around a heap of separated grain
Students threshing paddy sheaves by hand
The Bhattada Thene workshop banner
Students packing seed for the next sowing
Students in uniform taking turns at threshing
Students carrying paddy sheaves
A student threshing paddy while classmates wait
Guests on stage at a closing session
Students gathered under the canopy
A student receiving a certificate
Group photo of workshop participants