Kerala-based Uralungal Labour Contract Co-operative Society’s (ULCCS) Chairman Ramesan Paleri inaugurated the harvest festival on Wednesday. This marked the paddy harvest of the extensive rice cultivation by IT professionals and park staff on the premises of UL Cyberpark.
Techies, including women, harvested 70 cents of paddy adjacent to the park building. In addition to paddy, vegetables and fruits are grown in the park. It is the policy of ULCCS to promote agriculture in all the project sites and institutions of the Uralungal Society, said Ramesan Paleri.
He further added that UL Cyber Park is a Green Campus with the Gold Certification of the India Green Building Council. A model like this that connects professionals in modern industries to land and agriculture developing organic links to nature is rare to find.
The Rakthasali variety of rice is cultivated in the Cyberpark. This seed variety is high-yielding and has various medicinal properties. The UL Cyber Park, General Manager said, the fact that it requires very little water for cultivation makes this seed important in this age of climate change and planned water use.