EcoFarm - http://www.ecofarm.in/

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EcoFarm is located at Thotanaval village near Uthiramerur, a historical temple town. ecoFarm is having an area of 9.04 acres. It is about 70 km away from Chennai off 15 km from Grand Southern Trunk Road and off 5 km from State High ways. 12 kms to Vedandhangal bird sanctuary.

There are two Engineering Colleges and one Polytechnic within a radius of 5 kms. There is one open well with free 5HP electric connection. Also a domestic power connection which is used for lighting the frontal farm house and to pump out water from the bore well. The entire area is linked by pipelines and Sprinklers.

At present ecoFarm’s main produce are

Silk cotton : Silk cotton tree is a type of native cotton tree with large red flowers. These are full of cotton-like fibrous stuff. It is for the fiber that villagers gather the fruit and extract the cotton substance called "kopak". This substance is used for filling economically priced pillows, quilts, sofas etc

Aonla (Nelli kai) trees : Aonla fruit is rich in Vitamin 'C' and Pectin, therefore has an important medicinal value in Ayurvedics. This is a fruit of subtropical region with district winter and summer. the Fruits remain dormant through summer without any growth thus makes it highly suitable crop for arid zone.

Nerium flowers: These are evergreen flowering shrubs that are found wild in the Orient. They can grow up to 20 feet tall. All parts of this plant are poisonous if eaten. They are great for cultivating outdoors in the far South

Coconut trees, Sappota or Chikku and Banana tree are some of the other plantations in the farm. Farm is completely organic.