Kundapur, July 29:  Under the auspices of Kundapur Rotary Sun Rise a Zonal Level Seminar of member ship development held at St. Mary’s Hall Kundapur on Sunday 29^th July. 

Assistant Governor Awarse Sudhaker Shetty inaugurated the seminar. K. Shivanand Karanth and G. Santhosh Kumar Shetty addressed about the keynotes of Rotary membership. Kundapur Rotary Sunrise president Ajay Hawaldar presided over the function. Senior Rotarian  K.Dinaker Shetty gave the introductory speech.

Past president L.J Fernandes monitored the program. Secretary Gajanana Bhat gave the  vote of thanks.

Kundapur: A surprise was waiting for Juliana Menezes of Herikudru near Kundapur when she was digging to remove the Suwarna Gadde(Yam) grown in her field which was found in the shape of Tortoise.

Here are the snapshots beautifully taken by Spoorthi Fernandes in her camera.

Kundapur, Jul 27: Shortage of labour is one of the banes for agricultural operation in spite of population explosion. With the introduction of sowing with the help of the machine made in China, the agriculturists especially in Kundapur taluk seem to have been heaving a sigh of relief.

Padmanabha Kini of Gavali village here is the first agricultural entrepreneur to initiate the application of this new machine in sowing rice in his field on an experimental basis.

The agricultural expansion extension officer of Ullal unit Dr Dhanajay B has designed a programme to educate the farmers not only in the use of machine but also in the system of sowing the rice.

Only two men are required in this modern process. One to operate the machine and the other to sow the seedlings through the machine. Even the family members can replace the hired labourers. It is said that the mat-like sowing system is found to be complimentary to the new machine. There is no need for making the water muddy or ploughing the field even. More often than not our farmers depend on the mat-like planting system.

This is because one cannot depend entirely on tillers for raising seedlings in the event of non-availability of buffaloes for ploughing for the combination of mat-like planting system. The Chinese sowing machine is found to be very economical and viable to the farmers. In the first place it reduces the problem of labour scarcity and the yield would also be rich with a minimum cost of production. 

Kundapur, Jul 26: A one-day educational camp was held under the auspices of Jam’iyyatul Falah of Kundapur unit at Akshata Hall here recently.

Inaugurating the camp Range the officer of Kundapur said that education, awareness and understanding were important among the stepping stones to success in life.

He distributed scholarships to students and felicitated the prize winners of talents competition. 

Mohammed Anwar of Bangalore, Abdul Razak of Bantwal and Adam Beary of Mangalore delivered papers on different subjects. K Abdul Khadar and Yusuf B Abdullah were the chief guests.

The others who participated as invitees at the valedictory ceremony were Syed Ashfak Ahmed, Sheik Fareed Basha Sahib and S M Jaffer Jeddah.

S Shabbier Sahib, the president of Jam’iyyatul Falak presided over the function. Nasarali T, the secretary welcomed the gathering. Althaf Khuraishi, the vice-president read out the list of meritorious students and the beneficiaries of scholarships.