The major reason behind the disappearance of heirloom varieties was the introduction of Hybrids and GMOs. Industrialization and increase of population’s demand for food are resulting homogenization have lessened the number of varieties of vegetables being grown. Over time, as more and more markets wanted to cash in on this Read more…
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The Himachal Pradesh government has decided to start planting Seabuckthorn in the cold desert areas. What is Seabuckthorn? It’s a shrub that produces an orange-yellow coloured edible berry. In India, it is found above the tree line in the Himalayan region, generally in dry areas such as the cold deserts Read more…
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Vegetable greens which are harvested with one set of true leaves or just after the cotyledons have developed are called as MICROGREENS, they falls between sprouts and baby greens. They grow from 2.5cms to 7.5cms tall and can be harvested 7-21 days after germination. HISTORY: The trending of MICROGREENS started Read more…
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Jharkhand’s Khunti district has in the past decades seen a lot of deforestation and it resulted in huge damage to the environment despite a sizeable number of small and medium sized water bodies for crops. Ajay Sharma, the founder of NGO Sewa Welfare Society, started construction of innovative check dams Read more…
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