Sources from kerala stated that she climbs eight palm trees a day to earn ₹350. C. Sheeja, 33, is from Panniyode in Kannur district, and today Kerala’s only woman toddy tapper. Accordingly a physically strenuous job done at dizzying heights, Sheeja had to learn how to climb the coconut tree and how to tap the sap from the flower to extract toddy.

Image result for 5. The toddy tapper from <a class='inner-topic-link' href='/search/topic?searchType=search&searchTerm=KERALA' target='_blank' title='kerala-Latest Updates, Photos, Videos are a click away, CLICK NOW'>kerala</a> is her family’s sole breadwinner

Meanwhile it was Sheeja’s husband Jayakumar who was the toddy tapper, but when he was injured in a road accident and could no longer climb trees, the family found it hard to make ends meet and at last Sheeja decided that she would take over her husband’s vocation. Furthermore her brother had died after falling from a coconut tree and Jayakumar worried about her safety and about what society would say. Sheeja, however, was confident. After all, she said, she had toddy tapping in her blood.



Moreover the challenge was to teach her the technique of climbing. He first chose the younger, shorter trees to train her. He said “It was difficult. We often thought of abandoning the idea because it seemed impossible. But there was no other option”. And sure enough, there came a day when Sheeja climbed a tree fairly effortlessly. She says “Climate change has reduced the toddy from a tree from eight to five litres”. Apparently after the day’s tapping is done, Sheeja takes on other jobs, sometimes rubber tapping, sometimes work under the job guarantee scheme


మరింత సమాచారం తెలుసుకోండి:

district english husband accident idea

SIBY HERALD

06/11/2019 08:00 AM