Green Grama in Kerala is an Eden of exotic fruits from around the world
5 years, 5 months ago

Green Grama in Kerala is an Eden of exotic fruits from around the world

The Hindu  

Kottarakkara is hardly the place where you would expect to come across fruits such as ugu, katemfe, olosapa, kubal, yellow jaboticaba, red jaboticaba, gac and more. Till you visit Hari Muraleedharan’s orchard on a 60-cent plot tucked in a by-lane, where he has grown nearly 600 varieties of fruit-bearing plants from different parts of the world. But many others that thrive in Thailand, Vietnam, Malayasia, Indonesia, West Africa and South America would also do well in Kerala,” he reasons. Ten years later, Hari’s farm, Green Grama, has become a Mecca for those interested in farming fruits.

Kerala Fruit West Africa Fruits Brazil Farm Hari His Farm Green Grama  grown  green  world  exotic  farmers  eden  west  grama  fruits  hari  kerala  fruit  plants  jaboticaba  farm

History of this topic

Why many Kerala farmers are ditching cash crops like rubber for rambutan and other exotic fruits
2 years, 3 months ago

Why many Kerala farmers are ditching cash crops like rubber for rambutan and other exotic fruits

The Hindu  

Probing through the thick, green leaves of a 15-foot-tall tree, 63-year-old Safiya Sulaiman plucked a reddish orb with a prickly rind. Ms. Sulaiman, according to officials with the Agriculture department, belongs to a growing list of farmers carefully nurturing an array of exotic fruits in the tropical hills of Kerala. As per State Horticulture Mission figures, the area under commercial …

Fruits and vegetables have a future. This is what UN and India are doing for it | OPINION
3 years, 2 months ago

Fruits and vegetables have a future. This is what UN and India are doing for it | OPINION

India Today  

The United Nations in its 74th session recently declared 2021 as the International Year of Fruits and Vegetables considering their importance as dietary essentials for consumers. A study conducted by the ICAR-Central Institute of Post-Harvest Engineering & Technology points out that in India for fruits and vegetables the post-harvest losses ranges from 4.58-15.88 per cent of the country's horticulture production. …

Abiu, achachiru, gac: These exotic fruits are now at home in India
3 years, 9 months ago

Abiu, achachiru, gac: These exotic fruits are now at home in India

The Hindu  

Have you tasted the abiu, jaboticaba, achachiru or gac? But now the achachairu, which came here less than 10 years ago, is proving that it can be grown here commercially,” he says, adding that dragon fruit too has seen a similar trajectory. “The demand is high, especially in metro cities, and the fruit grown in India is sweeter than the …

From flowers, fruits, yam and honey, Odisha's forest-dwelling tribal communities survive on nature as many struggle for one meal during COVID-19 lockdown
4 years, 7 months ago

From flowers, fruits, yam and honey, Odisha's forest-dwelling tribal communities survive on nature as many struggle for one meal during COVID-19 lockdown

Firstpost  

While middle-class people living in the city had to deal with a similar situation, it was worse with wage earners and poor people living in rural Odisha. Without vegetables, greens and pulses, the nutritional value of the food they consumed was least,” said Panchanan Mishra of PAHAD, a Phulbani based non-profit working for the development of tribal and forest-dwelling communities. …

Discover Related