{"id":30036,"date":"2018-06-09T15:05:07","date_gmt":"2018-06-09T15:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/?p=30036"},"modified":"2018-06-09T15:09:48","modified_gmt":"2018-06-09T15:09:48","slug":"jallikattu-champs-born-in-karnataka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/?p=30036","title":{"rendered":"Jallikattu champs, born in Karnataka"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Racing bull: A Hori Habba enthusiast displays a Hallikar sporting breed at Tadasanahalli, in Shikaripur taluk. | Photo Credit: Vaidya<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Drought-hit farmers rescued by the popularity of their bulls in Tamil Nadu<\/h2>\n
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Vishnuvardhan, Sudeep, Darshan Thoogudeepa, Yash, and Duniya Vijay are not only popular Kannada film stars \u2013 all of them are also sturdy bulls from Karnataka\u00a0that are taking Tamil Nadu\u2019s Jallikattu by storm, with some of them selling for as much as \u20b912 lakh, and earning their breeders a neat profit.<\/p>\n

The bulls, reared and trained in the semi-arid Shikaripur taluk of Shivamogga district, have acquired a reputation for agility, speed and sturdiness. They are in great demand in Tamil Nadu <\/b>following the resumption of Jallikattu in the State.<\/p>\n

Shikaripur\u2019s racing bulls are fetching almost double the money the farmers invested on purchasing the calf, and rearing and training it.<\/p>\n

Trained for local sport<\/strong><\/p>\n

The bulls get trained in the local bull-catching sport, \u2018Hori Habba.\u2019 In Shikaripur taluk alone, more than 120 Hori Habba events are held between Deepavali and Sankranthi. The sport involves making bulls of the \u2018Amruth Mahal\u2019 and \u2018Hallikar\u2019 breeds run in the ring. Whoever succeeds in catching or taming them wins. Mr. Kumaranna, a farmer from Gandhi Nagar village of Shikaripur said that it costs him around \u20b912,000 a month to keep the bull fighting fit. Four years ago, he bought a six-month old male Hallikar calf for \u20b950,000. Recently, he sold it to a Jallikattu enthusiast from Tamil Nadu\u2019s Vellore district for \u20b912 lakh. Another bull reared by Zakir Saab in Narasapura was sold to a buyer from Alanganallur in Madurai district for \u20b911 lakh.<\/p>\n

Nandan Sommananavar, who is doing research on Hori Habba in Kuvempu University said that in the past six months enthusiasts from Tamil Nadu bought more than 60 bulls from Shikaripur. The bulls are typically named after Kannada films (Mylari, Raja Huli, Tagaru, Hathavadi, Saarathi) and film stars.<\/p>\n

source: http:\/\/www.thehindu.com \/ The Hindu \/ Home> News> National \/ by Veerandra P.M. \/ Shivamogga – June 08th, 2018<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Drought-hit farmers rescued by the popularity of their bulls in Tamil Nadu Vishnuvardhan, Sudeep, Darshan Thoogudeepa, Yash, and Duniya Vijay are not only popular Kannada film stars \u2013 all of them are also sturdy bulls from Karnataka\u00a0that are taking Tamil Nadu\u2019s Jallikattu by storm, with some of them selling for as much as \u20b912 lakh, … Continue reading Jallikattu champs, born in Karnataka<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[664,5,15,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-business-economy","category-records-all","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30036"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30043,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30036\/revisions\/30043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}