Yatra to Jandrapeta Village.
Jandrapeta is presently merged in Chirala town but still in patches we can find village environment due to people being engaged in farming and weaving activities. This is one the villages where people still continue to use handlooms fighting hard to withstand power looms. Gradually the younger generation is giving up this profession and preferring other jobs as daily-wage earners. We can say that this marks the extinction of the traditional profession. There are around four hundred families still engaged in this profession. Agriculture is mainly maintaining the cashew groves and some farmers do intercropping with peanuts, corn and vegetables. Some also maintain coconut farms. People are pious and attend to festivals organized in the seven-hundred year-old Lord Shiva and Lord Vishnu temples.
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