Huge response of Nagpurkars to Mango Millet Grain Festival
Nagpur, Dt. 16 - From the hapus mango of Devgad in Konkan to the indigenous mango of Jeevangatta village in Gadchiroli district to the indigenous mango 'Gola', from the sorghum of Khandesh to saffron in Wardha Nagpur district, Dasheri to Safeda, the variety has become the specialty of the 'Mango Millet Grain Festival'. The Mango Millet Grain Festival started from 16th at Kusumtai Wankhede Bhavan here with the aim of increasing the confidence of the farmers through the Maharashtra State Agricultural Marketing Board has received a spontaneous response.
Sistema Gawde, an agriculture graduate from Jeevangatta village in Gadchiroli, has confidently lined up the village's indigenous gola mangoes along with a variety of mangoes, tomatoes, garlic pickles and hapu's on her skills.
“I am becoming the first woman agriculture graduate of my village. I am trying how to add value to the tribal women's self-help group established by my mother by adding agricultural education. System Gawde informed that by adding a little scientific process to food processing based on the traditional skills of tribal women, they have decided to have a stall with few products like hemp, tomato pickle, amla processed syrup, mango juice in natural form. I am feeling a new confidence through this activity and the belief system has shown that I will carry it to other women in our Jeevangutta. She sells other products including wild vegetables.
There are total 57 stalls in this festival. Out of these 25 stalls are for mango and 32 stalls are for millet cereal. Prashant Vekhande, a farmer of Varud, has put on sale naturally grown mangoes such as Dasheri, Laddu, Langda, Safeda, Chausa grown in his farm. Many women have grabbed the attention of consumers with their varied products. Varieties prepared from jowar bajri, nachni, varai, rala, millet, etc., biscuits, papad, turmeric, gawran teja chillies and pickles are available for sale at this place. The festival is open to all from 9 am to 9 pm till May 19 at Kusumtai Wankhede Auditorium on North Ambazari Road.
Nagpur, Dt. 16 - From the hapus mango of Devgad in Konkan to the indigenous mango of Jeevangatta village in Gadchiroli district to the indigenous mango 'Gola', from the sorghum of Khandesh to saffron in Wardha Nagpur district, Dasheri to Safeda, the variety has become the specialty of the 'Mango Millet Grain Festival'. The Mango Millet Grain Festival started from 16th at Kusumtai Wankhede Bhavan here with the aim of increasing the confidence of the farmers through the Maharashtra State Agricultural Marketing Board has received a spontaneous response.
Sistema Gawde, an agriculture graduate from Jeevangatta village in Gadchiroli, has confidently lined up the village's indigenous gola mangoes along with a variety of mangoes, tomatoes, garlic pickles and hapu's on her skills.
“I am becoming the first woman agriculture graduate of my village. I am trying how to add value to the tribal women's self-help group established by my mother by adding agricultural education. System Gawde informed that by adding a little scientific process to food processing based on the traditional skills of tribal women, they have decided to have a stall with few products like hemp, tomato pickle, amla processed syrup, mango juice in natural form. I am feeling a new confidence through this activity and the belief system has shown that I will carry it to other women in our Jeevangutta. She sells other products including wild vegetables.
There are total 57 stalls in this festival. Out of these 25 stalls are for mango and 32 stalls are for millet cereal. Prashant Vekhande, a farmer of Varud, has put on sale naturally grown mangoes such as Dasheri, Laddu, Langda, Safeda, Chausa grown in his farm. Many women have grabbed the attention of consumers with their varied products. Varieties prepared from jowar bajri, nachni, varai, rala, millet, etc., biscuits, papad, turmeric, gawran teja chillies and pickles are available for sale at this place. The festival is open to all from 9 am to 9 pm till May 19 at Kusumtai Wankhede Auditorium on North Ambazari Road.
Sistema Gawde, an agriculture graduate from Jeevangatta village in Gadchiroli, has confidently lined up the village's indigenous gola mangoes along with a variety of mangoes, tomatoes, garlic pickles and hapu's on her skills.
“I am becoming the first woman agriculture graduate of my village. I am trying how to add value to the tribal women's self-help group established by my mother by adding agricultural education. System Gawde informed that by adding a little scientific process to food processing based on the traditional skills of tribal women, they have decided to have a stall with few products like hemp, tomato pickle, amla processed syrup, mango juice in natural form. I am feeling a new confidence through this activity and the belief system has shown that I will carry it to other women in our Jeevangutta. She sells other products including wild vegetables.
There are total 57 stalls in this festival. Out of these 25 stalls are for mango and 32 stalls are for millet cereal. Prashant Vekhande, a farmer of Varud, has put on sale naturally grown mangoes such as Dasheri, Laddu, Langda, Safeda, Chausa grown in his farm. Many women have grabbed the attention of consumers with their varied products. Varieties prepared from jowar bajri, nachni, varai, rala, millet, etc., biscuits, papad, turmeric, gawran teja chillies and pickles are available for sale at this place. The festival is open to all from 9 am to 9 pm till May 19 at Kusumtai Wankhede Auditorium on North Ambazari Road.