mollywood has quite a few actors who proudly get into the role of a farmer for real they devote their spare time to farming and whats more their success stories have inspired many to follow suit alongside those like sreenivasan mammootty salim kumar and kunchacko boban who have been into farming for long here are a few others who have also been making headlines for the same during the lockdown we speak to them for world environment daykrishna prasadkrishna prasad has been devoting a big chunk of his time to cultivation for the past 13 years even winning the state government award for best farmer a while ago the actor who mainly cultivates paddy and vegetables on his land in changanacherry says it gives me a lot of energy to be in the company of nature and i thoroughly enjoy it i also believe that its important that all of us respect nature and treat it well the absence of which is resulting in the pandemics cyclones and the like that we regularly now encounter he had recently started a youtube channel too to share his learnings with those interested in farmingjayaramtime and again he has been in news for his terrace cultivation love for animals and most recently jayaram also wowed his fans when he spoke about his dairy farm in thottuva near malayattoor interestingly the sixacre land is quite close to his ancestral house and all the cows there were selected by jayaram named by his daughter malavika interestingly we hear that even the grass required to feed the cows are grown in the farm and the animals are sent out to graze like in the old dayssudheer karamanaat his home in chakka thiruvananthapuram sudheer karamana had a wellspent lockdown during which he cultivated pumpkins and other veggies and even the mayor of thiruvananthapuram was present during the harvest recently the actor says i am a geography teacher by qualification and i understand the importance of these activities especially subsistence farming i was interested in flowering plants and gardening during my childhood but later did not have the time for it now as a family we love cultivation and have chilly spinach brinjal eggplant curry leaves and more in our premise i am sure that now on regardless of my schedule i will make some time for thisanoop chandranthe bigg boss fame actor often talks of his love for farming and animals during interviews the actor who grows everything from rice to chillies also nurtures cows and goats however he isnt very happy about the support received by farmers from our authorities the actor says they always encourage us to farm however as a person from a traditionally agricultural family i can say just statements are not enough our authorities should do whats required to support those in cultivation as well to ensure crops are harvested on time and they get the deserved profit i was fully into farming even during the lockdown so didnt feel the effects