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Paddy cultivation in Kuttanadu thomascombi doc
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3.1 Study Area - Some General Observations

3.1.1 Location and area
Ramankari village that is selected as the area of the present study falls in the kayal
zone of Kuttanad region. It belongs to Veliyanad block of Kuttanad taluk. The village contains all of the ten wards of Ramankari panchayat except the wards 6,7 and a small portion of 8. The village is nearly triangular in shape. The river Pamba that is one of the four major feeder rivers in Kuttanad acts as the natural boundary of the village in the northeast separating it from the nearby village of Veliyanad. Champakulam and Edathua villages are situated respectively in the west and north of the study area. From Kidangara Bridge in the east to Pallikkoottumma Bridge in the west, 4.2 kilometers of the Changanassery-Alapuzha main road passes through this village. Important localities in the village are Pallikkottumma,
Manalady, Ramankari, Mampuzhakari, Settlement Colony, Oorikari and Vezhapra. The study area is purely a rural area without any hospitals with modern facilities, affiliated colleges, technical institutions, business centres or large scale industrial units. As per the revenue records, Ramankari village covers a total area of 1147.51 hectares out of which 845.73 hectares (73.70 percent) are wetlands hectares
(21.47 percent) are dry lands and the remaining 55.42 hectares (4.83 percent) are uncultivable wastelands or water bodies. Every year during the monsoon months, the entire village is submerged under floodwater for two or more weeks. Compared to kayal lands in and around the Vembanad Lake, the wetlands inmost part of the village are shallower. Even though, the recently introduced rice-fish crop rotation had been attempted by a few individual farmers, the new system has not yet become popular and paddy remains to be the only crop raised in almost all of the padasekharams in the study

area. Coconut is the major garden crop cultivated in dry lands of this area. Banana and other plantains, vegetables, pulses and tubers are also cultivated in dry lands in a limited scale. The dry lands in the study area are thickly populated and density of population is found to be 38 per hectare.

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