Kerala, Coffee & Climate Change |

Kerala, Coffee & Climate Change |

Video Politics just for a very weird reason but I guess he’s just sweet Coffee Ch So it’s nice right you just get out of your home and you go to your coffee plant you get to you know just walk through the nature yeah that’s correct our homes when we get out of our homes we get to walk through kacha this one are cardamon plant okay

This is the cardamon plant yeah here only the cardan will be there you can just see one cardan here okay this is a card yeah and it will be become little more yeah you know I think this is not ripe yet no we have to pluck it and we have

To dry it out okay we’ll dry from the we put it in the sunshine and we’ll be drying it out inside you can just see that small seeds fresh will be very strong okay m welcome to the Sunday bat Series 24 States in 2024 this is a journey to understand India or is through Patty field right yeah yeah right now it’s like already harvested you can just see the grass here and there yeah cuz the farmers will be giving those things to the cows see these are semi- ripe bananas no in Malay it’s called nraam n yeah n okay that’s the name of this

Breed and you know there’s a snack called parori in Kerala majority of the shops you can just see it out Pari and that thing is made up of this banana okay yeah this are pepper plants here so these are pepper plants pepper plants yeah where’s the pepper so this is

Pepper and now we need to dry this as well yeah so pepper grows on these branches right yeah it’s climbers climbers yeah Rahul like the climate is changing now so how much have you noticed the crops change or the tempature weather in Kerala 3 years or 4 years uhhuh in W

It’s very hot in the summer it’s very hot in the Summers yeah yeah I think it’s become like 33 32 and all it’s always like 28 27 used to be cooler but now it’s hot but right now it’s like hotter okay we going through a local

Bridge you know PE wood okay are this one jack fruit plant I think jack fruit is there in your area actually jack fruit is the state fruit of Kerala Kerala yeah yeah yeah so we were in a home in Karnataka and they offered us jack fruit for me that was the first

Time I was eating that because all my life I’ve ate jack fruit Curry we make pickle out of jackf fruit some make snacks out of it yeah yeah yeah also yeah but I never ate that yellow thing that sweet one yeah that sweet one that

Was the first time I uh I ate it okay and here these are the coffee plants so this is a coffee plant yeah I just see in the down with the you want get the smell mhm yeah you can just see the it’s going to bloom it’s going to bloom yeah

The thing is like right now it’s time for rain one or two rain need to come actually in one week so after blooming again we need a one or two rain because after blooming this thing it become like blackish color like here you can just

See this one okay so after the rain it all just went down will just go down when it’s raining again okay so then after that only in from here the new Coffee Bean will be coming the park of the plant is uh interesting so this is

This actually that y sand and yeah and here the coffee everything is like Bonsai you know bonsai plants Cutten out need to be spread all the way the top you can just see the coffee are spread the coffee plants are spreaded right so we just cut it in so many pieces it have

Spread you can’t take into the tall it can’t grow to the toall because if you go to the toall the bean will be less okay you can just see one plant is going up here if the plant reaches certain height we Harvest less beans yeah and also

Difficult to pluck also here you can just see the flowers is just dried out but it need to be rain then only this flow will just get out from the Plant oh by the Way after I think water And stud Circle geography faculty You know where coffee has originated it’s Ethiopia also called as ABIA you know from where the word mocha has come it has come from Yemen do you know who is the highest producer of coffee beans in the world it’s Brazil accounting for 35% and you know what is common among

All these areas they have got Highlands raise mountains and the coast is not very far away so if you want to produce the best of the coffee in the world then you need to have a mountain range along the coast and India has such a beautiful opportunity that is the Western GS the

Western GS will be receiving good amount of rainfall because it will be obstructing the rain bearing winds so high rainfall coupled with high humidity and elevation will give rise to best of the plantations in the world the Western GS also grow other Plantation crops such

As tea cashew nuts arut rubber Etc is it normal no it need to be rained one or two rain not fully rain but one or two rain need to be get but because of not having we just do the sprinkler system okay but for that we need more water

That’s another problem which we face yeah during the last 5 to 6 years has the rain reduced yeah yeah this this thing okay in February there need to be one or two rains because of that the coffee also will be less last month uh people from Germany or France they just

Came and they just told me that in their country the dried Leaf they just import it and then they will make coffee with the leaf and also that outter shell no the bean is inside the outer shell we just put it in the plants or we just

Throwing out there they will dry that outer shell also then they use that also as a coffee it have a different kind of taste yeah so you just tell me have you have you tried it no I haven’t yet H yeah that’s the bean you can see it’s

Red color red color is time to plug it out so I can plug it out yeah you can just plug it out and inside you can just see the bean can just open it this is the bean H yeah is are the be that’s a coffee bean I’m seeing it for

The first time oh okay so so when we roast it we’ll get that brownish color yeah and that flavor also yeah another procedure is also there you can just see here right this one yeah now right now we just taken the bean from here okay

But we just dry it like same like this we just dry it out and after drying it if we just do like that we can hear that noise inside the bean will be shaking uhhuh that’s the time when we have to separate the m bean from this shell so

After then only you have to roast the so what’s the maximum size this uh Bean yeah Bean reaches yeah this the one this is like maximum uh maximum yeah the dried one be this is life on the edge how much is climate change affecting even you said you know it’s affecting coffee

Production then pepper yeah and also this one palm trees even the palm trees yeah some of the people are just telling because of the range the mobile range because of that it’s happening some of they just say because of the fungus issue uhhuh and some of they just say

Because of the climate change so what’s exactly happening with the B thing I think fungus is the main issue you can just see the leaves are becoming yellowish color the leaves are here and there after some time the head will be gone when you wake up in the morning

Full of fog but like 5 years before there were no this much fog here okay f is actually good like for our I it’s good but it spread more fungus like this palm tree yeah that’s the thing the cashew nut cashew nut tree this the one

I think go and there will be more so what is the season of cashew fruit right it’s flowering now so same kind of coffee it will take like 3 months from one uh tree H how many kilos of cashew can like after final production this is

A very small tree and I think you’ll be maximum getting 2 or 3 Kg I think so now I understand why cashew is so expensive what do you call this in Malayalam vti vti yeah there are many kind of yeah there are many we call it hasia hasia gandasa hasia just

See you can just take [Laughter] It this actually my local Guardian okay okay yeah my parents just given me to her you have to look after him very good so she’s telling please telll to [Laughter] her only Mal Rahul like your son communicated Yeah one 2 three just smell it out guys okay you put this in B and everything beans yeah and it’s very expensive also britishers and every for the Portuguese britishers the pepper yeah just cut it off and now they give all that no we don’t eat no spice

Your ancestors came here for this only that’s smell it out bro this is cinnamon dalini how do you grow it yeah here it is this is the one this is the so just peel it out okay and just this is just the skin of the tree yeah

Yeah see another new thing I learned that cinnamon is grown like this yeah so rul uh many of the guests we come so you show them your palm around right Dophin yeah and they must be very interested Yes actually in the evening or in the morning we just take them

Here it’s a nice thing you know because for us know people who are coming from major cities now even cities which usually considered to be green and clean uh like bangaluru they’re also facing pollution problem and uh most of the times you know when we run after money

We run after good lifestyle this is something which we completely miss out in our lives uh and here guys you can just see the pineapple plants pineapple plant also looks like a pineapple yeah yeah pineapple is not there I because there are monkeys we just come and plock

It off one fruit was here actually just taken Away this is the anend yeah in here there’s a talk if you you need to see Heaven you have to take one of this orange color and we have to CT it here we have to do it like this so you can just see the heaven

Like okay so uh it’s like yeah is is it like very intoxicating or it’s painful it’s painful actually it’s painful yeah but this thing this yellow orange color is like pain will be there for 1 hour or MH 2 hours but there is another ant in a

Black color you can just see they will go only in a line like 100 or thousand only in a line they’re very very disciplined it said that you know when they form a circle so uh they follow each other so well if that if they form

A circle then you have to break the circle or they’ll die because they’ll keep following each other keep following each other Keep you can just see some of there passion fruit you know huh yeah passion fruit passion fruit those are that and here’s one but there are no fruits in this season no right now it’s not the season win yeah no vanilla ice cream plant is there vanilla plant is here here you can

Just see them this is vanilla plant it’s very sof soft you Know this is lemongrass is it I don’t so so AA uh I had a friend uh in my office he was a very uh he very fond of vegetation plants so he bought a lemon PL uh lemongrass plant okay in our office so what we used to do is I I

Don’t like green tea I like tea with milk and yeah the normal Masala tea so what he used to do is he used to just pluck that lemongrass boil it in a in water and then drink it and I was very fascinated and then he told me I told

Someone else someone else told someone else and in a matter of 2 weeks everyone was drinking lemongrass tea okay and then we had to arrange for two more plants in our let’s go for like to our home we can go that’s G you know most of the milk we get from

Cows here it’s imported breed Jersey yeah yeah yeah so the local breeds of cows they give a milk so this is these sort of cows they will give A1 milk oh the A2 milk is given by the cows of Indian breed oh okay yeah it’s uh very

Thinner in texture but it’s also very nutritious more nutritious than the A2 milk um so A1 milk you find in the packet milk but A2 milk is very costly that’s also some like you know a new business people are nowadays U focusing on farming cows of Indian breed more

Mulbury Murry it’s actually become more reddish color uhhuh you can eat it like this yeah but it’s not ripe yet but we can eat it yeah it’s actually right right now we can eat it and here it’s like mainly used like and mainly these plants are used for the you know silk

Worm and this is the food for them Leaf right now majority of the farmers are doing this plant so Rahul is it very uh common in Kerala for people to have their own Farms yeah yeah actually in Kerala right now not in the city area MH

But in the rural area everyone will be having some land like even and that kind of area and they will be making their own vegetable have you ever seen your MP here Rahul Gandhi you have do you have an opinion about him uh actually I’m not that kind

Of a big but I just love Communist Party because it just influenced me a little bit in many kind of thing uh in religious way also communist we are just saying it’s not about religion we all are human beings so we have to treat all

Of them in a same way because some of the party you know the cast system the things so I’m always I have a small soft s side for soft s side for the Communist Party yeah but I don’t hate the Congress okay because they also made many developments they just rule our country

For many years the rule is sort of like a wrong word to use they served but the way politics is yeah we always feel that you know they are ruling us yeah but the thing is like the people public need to be changed actually I think so we have to raise our voice

Towards the things they done which we don’t like have to say we don’t like it yeah we need a correct voice towards the political parties mhm but what do you like about Kerala the most you know it’s people I just like I think so mostly I

Liked about K the most is that it’s very quiet and people are here people here are very contended one thing which I subconsciously noticed was that you know whenever we are in Metro cities big cities the major thing is that you know we are always in a hassle we are always

In a hurry always anxious like if there’s a traffic jam we’ll just you know put our horn that you know we need to go fast even when on the streets even we are if if we just having a snack from a street stall then you’ll try to finish

It fast save one 2 minutes of our time so that just we can go to a place early we are always running behind the clock okay here people are very chill they don’t care some people might not even having the concept of a clock or a time

They might just be seeing the sunrise they have their own day and sunset yeah that’s the thing we will just think inside our mind that why we are running this MCH you can sit calm and yeah for you it it might be very normal for me

It’s a it’s a Once in a month sort of a moment okay okay yeah so we can just see that coffee CH area there okay Come [Laughter] Go it’s fully dried out because it’s already the time is gone here it’s a reddish color this time you have to pluck it okay so it’s dried out we did not pluck it yeah why I think she will be buy okay so now uh we can pluck it

Now n this is the correct time yeah this is the correct time to pluck coffee yeah yes how is it it actually has a good taste is it h Huh okay and if you smell this thing you will you can see Heaven if I smell this thing okay why

Why does it sound like sarcasm just check it out you just take a small plant and you just do it and smell it okay smell it slowly okay don’t take it to inside is this your plan to kill us and use us as your best fertilizer fertilizer sometimes what happens to

There’s a bug and when it dies no it smells like this so it’s a very foul [Applause] smell this is what C no that Palm this one only the people just break it and put it in that leaf and okay smoke it up this isari suari yeah meaning

Fi so there’s a lake there it’s not a lake actually it’s like a what yeah a small P bigger one it’s a Cory you know Cory so Rahul tell me your best guest experience the best guest you had and you just you had a good time with them and that became one of your most memorable experience I I have some of the many good memories actually mhm one was like one coup’s from Belgium Belgium

He just came here uhh he just say he just gone for a walk through this way through this way he’s gone from there they just see some coconut and in a sudden they just think of okay Rahul we can plug some of the coconut if you get

H so we just go into that house and we just take a ladder big ladder okay and I just climb on the top of that uhhuh from there I just beat a coconut okay with a knife or something like that that coconut just go and fell on that rooftop

Okay of their chicken some cage was there rooftop was broken oh that was a good memory for me and like last week also three people just come from Germany they only just stayed here for 2 days okay but we were like a family actually in first day itself we just

Talk a lot and that that next evening H they just take me for the dinner to KP okay it was a great time with them so you get to make new friends every other day yeah yeah I had got very good experience and also same like a bad

Experience too how three people just came and stay in my property uh for 3 Days actually okay 3 days they stayed in my property in the room same I just treated like every case I just treated them so well last day when they’re just checking out they just told me sorry we don’t

Have money with us you can’t do that in Up so we can just see the lake from here oh God be careful okay guys we just go down it will be so deep by actually there’s a way through that way uh but I don’t take my guest towards the side because it’s too dangerous small area to walk down but if

One step just gone wrong you’ll be going like I think 400 m or 500 M depth 500 M yeah it’s a Cory it’s not like a small area it’s too deep Actually Election sort of leader of the Opposition and then we met Rahul and Rahul just showed us around we wanted to See and it was a lovely experience rul thank you so much for us around for being such a good host I would definitely like to come again someday when this project gets over and then I have some time and Kerala is on my bucket list to just visit for some uh

More piece when I need more we’ll be moving forward but uh all the all the best for your future ERS as they say um and you have a lovely property man you’re a lovely person it was such a honor and I’m very lucky to meet a person like you thank you so much

For showing me around yeah and guys I hope you guys enjoyed a small Journey uh through this place and I hope we also going to talking about the people who come from and other areas please Journey follow thank you so much

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Welcome to another episode of Sunday Bharat Journey!

In this episode, We are in Wayanad and exploring its Lush Greenbelt with our host Rahul. Here, we tried to dive into the world of coffee plantation, where the rich history of coffee cultivation dates back over 400 years. Lets experience the legacy and tradition of Kerala’s coffee plantations, and see how they continue to flourish amidst the challenges of climate change and modernization.

You may skip to the following points in the video for more information:

00:00 Introduction
03:05 How does the Weather affect Kerala Plantation?
04:53 Formation of Coffee Beans
06:25 Rau IAS Geography Faculty Explains Geographical Distribution of Coffee Plantations
08:09 Importance of Rainfall in Coffee Plantations and Recent Rainfall Issues
08:41 How is France’s Coffee Plantation approach different?
09:15 Procedure for Coffee Bean Roasting
10:28 How much is Climate Change affecting Plantations in Kerala?
11:35 Different kinds of Plantations in Kerala
19:00 Influence of the Communist Party in Kerala
20:29 North India Vs South India (Kerala) in terms of Lifestyle
21:35 Best time to Pluck Coffee Beans
23:52 Rahul’s Best Guest Experiences and Memories
26:40 Outro

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