>>5426069>>5426432>Photo:Thalavaipandi.>Alt text: Banana plantation in southern Tamil Nadu grown on grasslands.(This wanna gonna be an Island Journal, but I think its a bit loose so it works as a Q and A)
The Ponni don't have an aversion to agriculture, they have a cultural taboo/aversion to eating cereal grains. (A cultural materialist would probably argue the taboo stems from them not wanting to compete with the animal they built their culture around for food.) The Ahi DO have a cultural aversion to plant farming. "Ahi do not till" is a saying rooted in their distaste for the sedentary and hierarchal labor system used by the Taya and Chantou. (Though they do practice basic oyster farming)
The Grasslands themselves are actually quite useful for farming plants, the origin of the Taya cities actually are rooted in claiming Grassland to use as grain farms. The cities taking Ponnni land to use for farms to feed their growth was the primary driver for most Ponni-Taya conflicts.
