Reaping success with bush pepper vines

Wayanad farmer gets up to 3 quintals of black pepper every year from 23 cents

Muhammadali of Puthukkudy, a farmer at Muttil in Wayanad, is known as the magician of pepper vines among his friends following his huge success in managing grafted bush pepper vines in and around his homestead. The progressive farmer is growing more than 300 grafted bush pepper vines belonging to six varieties on his pepper garden on 23 cents of land and gets an average yield of two to three quintals of black pepper every year. Mr. Muhammadali turned to bush pepper cultivation a few years ago after his pepper vines were destroyed in a flood. He used to get more than five quintals of black pepper from 270 pepper vines.