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With a presumption to popularising and conserving indigenous and accepted effect varieties, a two-day desi effect festival titled ‘Desi Beejotsava’ would beryllium held astatine the Nanjaraja Bahadur Choultry successful Mysuru connected Saturday and Sunday, June 13 and 14.
Organised by Sahaja Samrudha successful collaboration with the Karnataka Biodiversity Board and Sahaja Seeds, the desi effect festival would witnesser the information of much than 50 effect conservators and members of assemblage effect banks from antithetic parts of Karnataka.
“Traditional harvest varieties are appreciated by some farmers and consumers for their unsocial taste, diversity, and absorption to pests and diseases. Varieties specified arsenic rajamudi, rajabhoga, ratnachudi, putta bhatta, karikaddi ragi, kottitale badane, eerangere badane, guli tomato, sinagalu avare, and the reddish husk maize of Biligiri Rangana Hills are among the hundreds of accepted varieties that farmers person cautiously preserved and passed down done generations. However, with the dispersed of high-yielding modern varieties, galore accepted crops are disappearing owed to a deficiency of cultivation, starring to the erosion of autochthonal effect diversity,” said a connection from the organisers.
The desi effect festival is acceptable to showcase implicit 1,000 indigenous seeds, tubers, leafy rootlike varieties, and uncommon fruits. Demonstrations connected effect treatment, ungraded conservation, and integrated fertilizer mentation would besides beryllium conducted.
With the monsoon play nether way, arrangements person been made to supply farmers with entree to a wide scope of indigenous sowing seeds nether 1 roof, the organisers said.
Saplings of progressively fashionable effect varieties specified arsenic shankara reddish jackfruit, foodstuff bael (bilva), hippu jamun, and food effect (avocado) would beryllium disposable for purchase. Fruit saplings would beryllium sold by Sasyadhama Nursery, Mysuru, and Beluvala Thota. The Desi Seed Producer Company would connection accepted seeds of ragi, paddy, millets, pulses, and vegetables for sale.
As portion of the festival, a husbandman grooming programme connected ‘Seed Conservation and Organic Seed Production’ would beryllium held astatine noon connected Sunday. The grooming would beryllium conducted by Ullas M.Y., a effect specializer from the University of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences, Shivamogga, and Keshavamurthy of Sahaja Seeds.
An consciousness programme connected ‘Bamboo Cultivation’ would beryllium held astatine 2.30 p.m. connected Saturday. Zabiulla of Davanagere, who has been actively promoting bamboo farming, would beryllium sharing accusation connected bamboo cultivation and marketing. Participants would besides person an accidental to acquisition saplings of the assorted bamboo varieties brought from Kerala.
At 4 p.m. connected Sunday, a effect speech programme would beryllium held to facilitate funny farmers and municipality residents to speech surplus seeds, tubers, and saplings.
A assortment of products, including millets, accepted atom varieties, pulses, cold-pressed oils, people grown mangoes and jackfruits, and value-added nutrient products, would beryllium disposable to visitors.
A women’s corporate from Kundagol would present residents to a scope of flours made from accepted sorghum varieties.
The president of the Karnataka Biodiversity Board, Vadnal Jagadish, would inaugurate the festival successful the beingness of distinguished guests, including Deputy Conservator of Forests M.J. Govardhan Singh and effect conservator Siddanahundi Srinivasamurthy.
The effect festival would stay unfastened from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. connected some days. For much information, contact: Sachin- 9008603222.
