chakku traditional oil press agrarian culture kerala in Indonesia
chakku traditional oil press agrarian culture kerala in Indonesia
chakku traditional oil press agrarian culture kerala in Indonesia
chakku traditional oil press agrarian culture kerala in Indonesia
chakku traditional oil press agrarian culture kerala in Indonesia
chakku traditional oil press agrarian culture kerala in Indonesia
chakku traditional oil press agrarian culture kerala in Indonesia
chakku traditional oil press agrarian culture kerala in Indonesia
chakku traditional oil press agrarian culture kerala in Indonesia
  • Why is Kerala planning a major push to double oil palm cultivation?
  • KOCHI: Kerala is planning a major push to more than double the area of oil palm cultivation over the next five years, luring farmers through subsidies and price support mechanism, to bring down the state’s heavy dependence on imports of palm oil for domestic use.
  • What was the first printing press in North Kerala?
  • This lithographic press was the first printing press in North Kerala. The first Malayalam newspaper Rajyasamacharam, which was published mainly for Christian religious propagation, was printed there. It was first published in 1847 June. Printing of another newspaper, Paschimodayam, also started there in October 1847.
  • When was the printing press established in Tamil Nadu?
  • In 1820, the London Missionary Society (LMS), an evangelical missionary group, established a printing press in Nagercoil, a town in the present-day state of Tamil Nadu in India. (Nagercoil was a part of the State of Travancore in those days.) They set up printing press in Neyyoor (Tamil Nadu) in 1829, and another one in Kollam (Kerala) in 1840.
  • Who founded the St Joseph's Press in Karnataka?
  • In 1842, the Basel Mission established a press in Mangalore, a city in the present-day state of Karnataka. Some of the Malayalam works of Dr. Hermann Gundert were printed there. In 1844, Mannanathu Chavara Kuriakose Elias Achan (1805-1871) of Kottayam, also known as Chavarayachan, established the St. Joseph’s Press.