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Issue No: 313-314, August-September 2015

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Reviving Vegetable Diversity – A Seed Saver’s Guide Barely twenty years ago, around Puducherry, the staple food was fermented ragi and a particular variety of kambu (Bajra). That variety of kambu is now virtually extinct and today’s staple food is polished white rice. Traditional varieties of bottle gourds and pumpkins were commonly seen trailing all over the roofs of village homes. Now we only see TV cables. Indian farmers had developed around 200,000 varieties of paddy for hundreds of specific uses and growing conditions. Today they are all but gone as the Green Revolution introduced dwarf varieties to promote agri-business. Also the number of vegetable species and the different types of each vegetable have almost been wiped-out in the past century. But vegetable diversity is critical to human health and well-being and undeniably, the nutritive power of a chemically-grown cabbage is not the same as of an organically-grown one. Fortunately, some of the once-rich di...
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Issue No. 313-314, August-September 2015

  • Scenes from Sri Aurobindo's Savitri
  • A Testimony to Stubborn Persistence
  • Initiators and Sustainers
  • Economics for People and Earth - part 2
  • Newcomer Housing
  • The Integral Entrepeneurship Lab
  • India, Land of Light
  • "There are many more Aurovilians in the world"
  • International Youth Day
  • Reading the Runes
  • New Books and DVDs
  • A 4000 Ladies' Special
  • Two New Land Campaigns
  •  Petra Janko (Passing)
  • Juanita Cole (Passing)
  • Brief News
  • Youth Link Takes Off
  • Auroville's Spirituality

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