A single piece of tapioca that weighs 130 kg; colocasia which measures 9 feet; 28.5-inch long lady’s finger. No, we are not making this up—this is the actual weight of produce from Reji Joseph’s farm in Pathanamthitta, Kerala.
Having made it to Limca Book of Records several…
December 2019
Agriculture in the Nilgiris is gearing up to go completely organic in the next few years. The increasing focus on health has forced traditional farmers to take notice and authorities to push for a change.
Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa has said that Karnataka would be developed into a hub of organic farming in the coming days. He was speaking after inaugurating Subhiksha Organic Farmers’…
Located six kilometres away from Badlapur in Maharashtra, is a lush five-acre farm with 187 varieties of fruits, vegetables and medicinal plants. More often than not, visitors tend to mistake the verdant farm, named Nisarg Mitra and owned by Rajendra Bhat, for a dense forest.
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Good food plays a vital role in Kavitha and Ravi Mantha’s life. It is hardly surprising, then, that their journey to building a 17-acre food forest began with a meal where the…
The quantity of organic product produced during 2018-19 under Participatory Guarantee System-(PGS)-India and National Programme on Organic Production (NPOP) of Agriculture Processed Food and Export Development Authority (APEDA) is given at Annexure I.
On weekdays, Shashi Chandra, a technical architect at Campus Management Corp., leaves for work by 8:30am. On weekends, he leaves home two hours prior to reach his other workplace: a rented farm in the outskirts of Bengaluru.
AP Governor Biswabhushan Harichandan reiterated that the food we eat is being poisoned due to excessive use of chemicals and hence we are turning towards natural agriculture. Governor attended the Seva Bharath ceremony held at local Sidhartha college auditorium. Speaking on the…
It is the end of a long workday. The employees of an IT company in Chennai rush out of the doors and only come to a halt when they spot Major (Retd) Ved Prakash Sharma.
The former Indian Army officer, who is now a farmer in …
The decision to move from Silicon Valley to Hyderabad was not a difficult one to make for Madhavi and Venugopal Vippulancha. The shift happened to help their kids immerse themselves in the Indian culture—a strong part of Madhavi and Venu’s childhood too.
“Our children were…