Under the topic agriculture or farming, I have planned to focus mainly on coconut farms. I will start off with some research about coconut trees. Later, I am willing focus on the problems that coconut farmers face in their day to day lives and on the products that we get from coconuts. The global context that best suits or connects to my topic would be Globalization and Sustainability because farming and manufacturing of coconut products is done in a world wide scale. As competition has increased in a global level, new technologies and other advances are required to sustain a balance in the agricultural field. If this balance is disturbed, then farmers all over the world might suffer. So, it is essential for us to know what problems farmers and manufacturers face, in order to make improvements and sustain the balance globally. For now I have decided to submit all this information in the form of a book let which will be my final product.

  

 Picture of a coconut farm

             Today we had our first Personal Project meeting. I came to know that my supervisor is Mrs.Zita and all about what I am being expected to do in this project. I first personally feel that it is going to be hard for me to choose one particular topic because, I am usually interested in a lot of things. However, I just have an idea of doing something related to Agriculture. This was the first thing that came up to my mind because, like me even my grandparents and parents are interested in agriculture.We own some coconut farms in the foothills of Kodaikanal and my grandma grows pears, plums, beans, potatoes and carrots here in Kodai. I really enjoy visiting our farm, talking to the people who work there, helping them with work etc. So, I want my project to be something related to farming.