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District Agricultural Farm, Taliparamba
Established in 1905, District Agricultural Farm, Kannur is one of the oldest farms in South India. Located at Taliparamba, this station was started by Sir Charles Alfred Barber at the behest of the Madras Government, based on the recommendation of the Famine Commission of 1880 of Government of India. Although the objective was to do research on pepper, the activities of the farm were further extended to agroclimatic experiments, hybridization and production and distribution of seeds and seedlings. Covering an area of 56 hectares, the farm has a rich biodiversity with a variety of indigenous and exotic fruit trees (such as Mangosteen, Rambutan, and Durian), spices and medicinal plants. The lush greenery with its array of crops such as Coconut, Areca nut, Cashew, Mango, Sapota, Jack, Coffee, Cocoa, Nutmeg, Clove and Pepper and the adjoining paddy field attracts many nature lovers and environmentalists to the farm. Recognizing the importance of the flora and fauna of the station, Kannur District Panchayat has established a ‘Biodiversity Centre’ and an ‘Indigenous Technology Knowledge Centre’ at the farm in 2005. Thousands of students, researchers, teachers and the general public from all over the state and the neighboring states make use of the facilities of the farm to improve and update their knowledge through study visits every year.
Quite reputed for its mango orchard with more than 62 varieties, the farm is a treat to mango lovers during the months of March to June. With a collection of varieties from all over India, the farm has produced four hybrid varieties of mango namely, H 45, H 56, H 87 and H 151. The farm participates at fruit and vegetable exhibitions conducted in Kannur and the neighboring districts of Kasargod and Kozhikkode. Benganappally, Alampur Banishan, Neelam, Alphonso, Kalapady, Himayudheen, Jahangir, Chinnarasa, Panjarakalasa, Priyori and Malgoa are among the popular varieties of Mango grown and multiplied in this farm.
The farm meets the requirements of the farming community through production and distribution of rooted pepper cuttings, cashew grafts, grafts of mango, sapota, mangostene and nutmeg, seedlings of fruit crops and spices, seedlings of arecanut, paddy seeds, vegetable seeds, banana and tuber crops (such as ginger, turmeric and yam.
== Sir Charles Alfred Barber ==
Sir Charles Alfred Barber, a botanist and taxonomist under the British government stayed at Karimbam as part of his assignment to make a study of plants for the preparation of a kind of registry titled `Flora of the Madras Presidency'. Dr. Barber was born at Wynberg in South Africa in 1860. He was the son of William Barber (a Wesleyan Minister and younger brother of Dr. W T A Barber)and Annie Barber. He married Edith Leather, daughter of Rev G R Osborn. He leaves a son, Geoffrey Osborn Barber (1904–1989) and a daughter, Elsie Weeling Barber(1903-). He went to Cambridge University before going out to Madras as the Government Botanist. Dr. Barber started his work here after he was appointed the Director of the Botanical Survey of India. He was also a sugar cane expert. After retiring from India in 1919 (having been made C I E in 1918) Dr. Barber was appointed Lecturer in Tropical Agriculture at Cambridge. His career includes: Superintendent of the Botanical Stations in the Leeward Islands, 1892–96; Lecturer in Botany at the Royal Engineering College, Cooper's Hill, 1896–98; Government Botanist, Madras Presidency, 1898–1912; Director of Botanical Survey of Southern India, 1898–1908; Head of the Agricultural College, Coimbatore, 1908; Sugar-cane expert to the Government of India, 1912–19; University Lecturer on Tropical Agriculture, 1919. He died on February 23, 1933, aged 72. A distinguished investigator of morphological problems, he did much exploratory botanical work while in the tropics, which has been utilised in Gamble's Flora. he had also published an important series of studies in parasitism of green trees in the Memoirs of the Department of Agriculture, India. He was awarded the Maynard Ganga Ram Prize for Indian research, 1931. He published several books on grasses and other horticultural subjects.
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