Hubballi: The natural and millet fair has supplied a possibility for shoppers to buy natural and primarily based products but the two day fair isn't sufficient. Permanent stores will have to be opened to promote natural and millet primarily based products. This used to be the opinion of health-conscious shoppers and stall house owners at the concluding day of the two-day "Organic and Millets Fair" held at Indira Glass House.
The Department of Agriculture arranged the fair in association with the Jaivik Krishik Society to create awareness on the benefits of natural and millet primarily based products. The fair also supplied a platform for farmers to exhibit their produce.
Over 100 stalls had been erected by quite a lot of organizations who exhibited and sold their products. Thousands of other folks visited the fair.
Agriculture department sources said that Karnataka is the biggest manufacturer of millets on this planet and is house to diverse kinds of the crop. Though millets help arrange diabetes and different persistent illnesses, these powerhouses of vitamins are but to achieve common acceptance a number of the heart and higher categories. At the millets fair, guests interacted with professionals and those that have benefitted from millets to counter their fitness problems, including gestational diabetes, cardiovascular illnesses, fibromyalgia and, so on.
Hemanth Raj, a shopper from Dharwad, told TOI, "As the fair was not organized in Dharwad, I have come to purchase organic and millets based products. The two-day fair is not enough. Permanent organic and millets stores should be opened in the twin cities to help the people buy healthy food," he said.
Shivaraj H, a personal company worker, said that he bought millets, jaggery and turmeric powder. "I had been searching for organic based products. The fair is a platform for consumers to buy such products. I felt the price of the products was a little bit high," he said.
MLC Basavaraj Horatti, who owns a vermicompost unit and erected a stall, said that farmers will have to shift to vermicompost for safeguarding the fitness of soil. He also stressed the desire for opening permanent stalls for promoting natural and millets primarily based products. "Though one stall was opened at Vidyanagar it was closed due to poor response from public. Awareness should be created among the people regarding the benefits of organic food," he said.
Visitors had the style of dishes, including sweets produced from millets. Nutrient-rich natural products like ragi, jowar, bajra and others had been on display.
Many guests enquired about recipes that can prepared from millets along side the hidden fitness secrets of this gluten free, high-fibre, antioxidant-rich grain. Traders said that millets are now not limited to the common-or-garden ragi mudde and rotti. They at the moment are available in quite a lot of avatars reminiscent of ice cream, jamun, cereal, pani puri, pizza, pasta and sohan papdi. Farmers also bought fertilizers and vermicompost to grow natural vegetation.
The Department of Agriculture arranged the fair in association with the Jaivik Krishik Society to create awareness on the benefits of natural and millet primarily based products. The fair also supplied a platform for farmers to exhibit their produce.
Over 100 stalls had been erected by quite a lot of organizations who exhibited and sold their products. Thousands of other folks visited the fair.
Agriculture department sources said that Karnataka is the biggest manufacturer of millets on this planet and is house to diverse kinds of the crop. Though millets help arrange diabetes and different persistent illnesses, these powerhouses of vitamins are but to achieve common acceptance a number of the heart and higher categories. At the millets fair, guests interacted with professionals and those that have benefitted from millets to counter their fitness problems, including gestational diabetes, cardiovascular illnesses, fibromyalgia and, so on.
Hemanth Raj, a shopper from Dharwad, told TOI, "As the fair was not organized in Dharwad, I have come to purchase organic and millets based products. The two-day fair is not enough. Permanent organic and millets stores should be opened in the twin cities to help the people buy healthy food," he said.
Shivaraj H, a personal company worker, said that he bought millets, jaggery and turmeric powder. "I had been searching for organic based products. The fair is a platform for consumers to buy such products. I felt the price of the products was a little bit high," he said.
MLC Basavaraj Horatti, who owns a vermicompost unit and erected a stall, said that farmers will have to shift to vermicompost for safeguarding the fitness of soil. He also stressed the desire for opening permanent stalls for promoting natural and millets primarily based products. "Though one stall was opened at Vidyanagar it was closed due to poor response from public. Awareness should be created among the people regarding the benefits of organic food," he said.
Visitors had the style of dishes, including sweets produced from millets. Nutrient-rich natural products like ragi, jowar, bajra and others had been on display.
Many guests enquired about recipes that can prepared from millets along side the hidden fitness secrets of this gluten free, high-fibre, antioxidant-rich grain. Traders said that millets are now not limited to the common-or-garden ragi mudde and rotti. They at the moment are available in quite a lot of avatars reminiscent of ice cream, jamun, cereal, pani puri, pizza, pasta and sohan papdi. Farmers also bought fertilizers and vermicompost to grow natural vegetation.
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January 01, 2018
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