When brick kilns turn organic farming beds

Workers of kilns at Kanjoor, near Kalady, set to harvest nearly 900 kg of vegetables

The dust bowls of brick kilns give way to the lush green of organic farming for four months since May every year at Kanjoor near Kalady. This is the fourth year that the brick kilns have been playing host to organic farming though the acreage involved was considerably less this year. “The farming undertaken by brick kiln workers was limited to a single kiln spread over three acres alone for fear of forecasts of potential floods this year,” said M.B. Sasidharan, president of Kanjoor Service Cooperative Bank, which has been powering the initiative.