November 24, 2023

Field visit to Dhanavanthrivana and Natural farming, Becca

From the department of botany conducted field visit to the above said place on 24-11-2023. It is conducted for 5th semester students to see the medicinal plants, wild plants and natural farming. It is nearer to village Becca run by farmer Raghavendra. We started moving from our department at 10:30am along with 12 students headed by Sowmya C V.

In that farm we have observed many wild plants, some taxonomy family related plants and medicinal plants like kadambavruksha, shami,sitaashoca ,hippali,sarpagandha,anjur, amruthnoni and others. Many wild plants are also observed in that region. He has grown many such plants along with Coconut, Banana, Areca nut and many fruit yielding plants without removing the weed and without applying fertilizers or compost.