The modus operandi of Sugarcane farmers.

Usually the sugar cane farmers wait a long time for getting cutting orders from their respective sugar factory. The sugar cane inspector allocates a date for the cutting order then the farmer harvests the sugar cane and send it to the sugar cane factory. This is the practice which is a long time consuming affair. Actually the produce has to be harvested after 10 months but the allotment is given usually after 12 or 13 months by the sugar factory.

The trick used by some clever farmers.
They wait neither for the cutting order nor long time delay for getting his payment from the sugar factory. They simply burn their dried sugarcane leaves and the fire spreads to a part of the field thus a fire accident is created. Then fire service department is called for extinguishing the fire. Then the farmer "pays" the Fire Dept Rs.1000/- and gets necessary reports of "Fire Incident " in the sugar cane field from the Fire Department. Once this certificate is produced in the sugar factory there is no looking back for the farmer. He harvests his sugar cane and sends it to the sugar factory and also there is no need for his truck load to wait in long queues. The truck loads zips fast into the sugar factory and the payment for his produce (minus Rs.30 per tonne about 3% of the rate per tonne) is done immediately since he is an "affected farmer".

Just see the irony here, Fire Department is meant for life saving services in case of fire accidents and emergencies but some farmers buy this out for One Thousand Rupees to get their immediate money for their harvest. An alternate strategy to make good return of investment for their hard work.

This horrible reality is a usual news for the people living around our city. e.g. - Sethiathope, a town situated on Vadalur - Kumbakonam road.

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Thanks for the podworks event - Lightening captured live !

After attending the podworks event I had gained confidence to use my Sony Ericsson K750i phone for podcasting. Here I am honing my skills to broadcast the video I shot on my way back to Cuddalore.

After the event is over I caught the bus for my destination Cuddalore at Madhya Kailash bus stop near Tidel park. An arduous journey was there for the day with the bus jam packed. But for the music available on the K750i phone I eased my tensions hearing music while travelling .

After a one and half hour journey, Oh God! one of the back tyres shown its bad mood. The tyre bursted with a deafening noise. There is no living habitat and its damn dark around, its 7.30p.m. then. No means to get an emergency help nearby. All the passengers were in tensed mood with some asking questions to the conductor - Why are you not having jockey to remove the wheel?

The sky was cloudy and it seems rain will be there in a short time. People who are heading the hectic journey with tiny tots were frightened with the lightning

in the midst of these troubles going on, I took out my K750i phone and began focusing the sky for capturing the lightening.

Folks you can get the treat from the video posted here.




Thanks for the Podworks event for enlightening me the podcasting skills.

About the shoot
The original capture was for 4.5 minutes. The file was edited to 55 seconds. Editing, trimming and audio mixing was made using the VideoDJ software available in the phone.

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Just created on the second day of the podworks event

Although I am blogging at Cuddaloreonline.blogspot I could write only my city specific events. To supplement my blogneeds I ve created this blog. This was created on the second day of the podworks event.

And here is the photos I took at the venue.


Srinivasan