A 61-year-old farmer in Siddipet’s Sheripally village is using a traditional wooden-pole mechanism to lift water from a drain and save his paddy crop. Power cuts, falling groundwater levels and a burnt-out borewell have left farmers struggling. Siddipet: Necessity is the mother of invention. A farmer in Sheripally village has proved this adage right again by using the age-old method of lifting water bucket by bucket with a counterbalanced wooden pole, known.