Organic Manure Workshop

About this event

The directory row Organic Manure Workshop names Mathra Farm Demo in Mathra, PIN 691333, near Punalur in Kollam. The monthly label is Last Saturday, and the short line is Organic composting workshop. Last Saturday is a directory label. In ordinary speech it means the final Saturday of a month, which can fall on any date from the twenty-fifth onward depending on how the month begins. It is not a confirmed class day. This listing has not published a confirmed edition, a fee, or a map of a demonstration plot.

Organic manures are materials that come from plants and animals and are worked into the soil. The group includes farmyard manure, compost, green manure, and oil cakes. They are distinct from bagged chemical fertiliser, which is a manufactured salt of nutrients such as nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. A workshop title that says organic is not, by itself, a promise that chemical fertiliser will be absent from the farm, or that a visitor may buy manure on the day.

Farmyard manure is the rotted mix of dung, urine, and bedding from a cattle shed or similar yard. Compost is a heap of plant waste that has broken down into a dark, soil-like material. Green manure is a crop, or fresh leafy growth, turned into the soil while it is still green so it feeds the next planting. Oil cakes are the solids left when oil is pressed from seeds such as coconut, groundnut, or neem. This row does not say which of these Mathra will show, or whether all four appear at all.

A compost heap needs a carbon to nitrogen balance, moisture, and turning. Carbon-rich pieces are dry leaves, straw, and woody bits. Nitrogen-rich pieces are fresh green waste and dung. Too much dry material stalls the heap. Moisture should be even, closer to a wrung cloth than to a puddle. Turning mixes the layers and lets air in so the heap does not become a sealed, sour mass. That is the general method behind the word composting. It is not a published lesson plan for Mathra Farm Demo, and no heap measurements are given for this farm.

Mathra is a village on the Punalur side of Kollam. The PIN on the row is 691333. Farm Demo in the place name suggests a plot used for showing practice, yet no demo plot map is published, and no fee is published. A visitor cannot tell from this row which field, shed, or courtyard is meant, or whether the demonstration is inside a private farm that is not open on ordinary days. Punalur is the nearby town. The village is not Punalur itself, and the workshop is not a town-hall event with a published stage.

No host is named beyond the place words Mathra Farm Demo. There is no published teacher, phone, ticket, or list of tools a visitor must carry. There is no statement that a meal is included, that children may attend, or that a certificate is given. Older local practice, if any, is not a future booking.

Before you travel, ask in Mathra or at the nearest agriculture office whether an organic composting workshop is actually being held, on which date, and on whose land. Ask whether the day is the last Saturday or some other day, whether a fee is charged, and which manures will be shown. Ask how to find the demo plot, because no map is published here. Ask whether visitors may watch only, or may handle the heap. No confirmed edition is printed on this row, so the local answer is the one that matters.

🚆 Railway: Punalur Railway Station — approximately 7 km from Mathra.

✈️ Airport: Thiruvananthapuram International Airport is approximately 79 km from Mathra.

🚌 Bus: Punalur bus stand.

🏨 Stay: Hotel Utham Mahal, Hotel Panacea Ventures and Shaji Hotel are nearby stay options.

✅ Notes: Mathra village, near Punalur. Dates in this sheet are the listing window (12/1/2026 to 12/31/2026), not a confirmed daily show.