What are the best traditional rice and millet varieties to make pongal with? Sreedevi Lakshmikutty of social enterprise Bio Basics offers us a tasting of sweet and venpongal made with rice and millets sold at her city-based organic store. There is venpongal made of thooyamalli, kichili samba, and iluppai poo samba, apart from sweet pongal with karuppu kavuni and thinai. …
Chennai: Three Tamil Nadu-based products -- Puliyankudi acid lime, Thooyamalli rice and Virudhunagar Samba vathal -- have applied for the Geographical Indication tag. The application for the Puliyankudi acid lime was made by the Tamil Nadu State Agricultural Marketing Board and Melpuliyankundi farmers association and the facilitator was NABARD Madurai Agri-Business Incubation Forum. The GI tag for Virudhunagar Sambha Vathal …
“At the Organic Farmers Market Chennai, we sold 100 tonnes of 91 different varieties of heritage rice in the last two years,” says Ananthoo, founder, OFM. Popular native rice varieties of Tamil Nadu Mapplilai Samba; Karung kuruvai; Thooyamalli; Kaattuyanam; Seeraga samba; Kichili Samba; Karuppu kavuni; Kodaivalai; Ponni; Poongar; Kothamalli samba; Garudan Samba; Iluppaipoo Samba; Thanga Samba; Kullakar Thengaipoo Samba Radhika …
