Manjushree G Naik, Udupi, August 16, DH News Service:
Mattu Gulla, the famed Udupi brinjal, has received the Geographical Indicator patent.
Baskets full of Udupi Gulla. DH PhotoThe famed eggplant species adds an exceptional flavour to the cuisine and has tickled the taste buds of the food buffs far beyond the district.
Agriculture is an area where new technologies are often applied to improve the yield of crops. Nano agriculture involves the involvement of nanoparticles in agriculture with the ambition that these particles will impart some beneficial effect to the crops.
Even as recent media reports caution that most fruits and vegetables are largely unfit for human consumption due to their high chemical content, pesticides continue to be used recklessly in the fields of Punjab.
NEW DELHI: How fresh and healthy are the vegetables that you consume daily? Not much, according to the Union health ministry.
In a bid to make them look garden fresh and ensure that they grow faster to reach markets, farmers are using chemicals at random that threaten to cause serious health hazards to consumers.
Unlike 2009, prices are likely to stay soft this year on back of imports and healthy crop yield
GROCERY shoppers and branded food makers alike may not have to agonise over buying cooking oil, basmati, maida, pulses, sugar and spices during the approaching festival season as their prices are expected to stay modest, or drop, on the back of generous supplies through production and imports.
LUCKNOW: On one hand, there is crippling price rise, on the other, criminal wastage of foodgrains and other agricultural produce continues in Uttar Pradesh. Despite being an agrarian economy, the state government has done precious little to put its warehouse and cold storage mechanism in order.
If you're a typical westerner, you ate nearly 100 kilograms of meat last year. This was almost certainly the costliest part of your diet, especially in environmental terms. The clamour for people to eat less meat to save the planet is growing ever louder. "Less meat = less heat", proclaimed Paul McCartney in the run-up to last December's conference on global warming in Copenhagen.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Agriculture Department is all set to launch a set of initiatives amounting to Rs 9 crore to increase vegetable production in the State in the current fiscal. This is apart from the projects undertaken by the VFPCK, State Horticulture Mission and Horticorp.
The unique ecological entity and topographical diversities are the exclusive characteristics of the hill and mountain regions in India. The distinctive socio-economic features, ethnicity, climatic variability and human activities, seprate the hill and mountain ecosystem from the rest.
