Hindustan Times

Taste of Life: How Indian kitchens embraced arrowroot

A brief report in “Kesari” published in July 1882 offers an insight into the untiring endeavours of an enterprising gentleman who was perhaps singularly responsible for the widespread cultivation of ...
Hindustan Times

Taste of Life: Swadeshi support to make arrowroot a familiar bite in Marathi kitchens

GG Agarkar and BG Tilak stressed the close interdependence between agricultural and industrial progress in their newspapers “Kesari” and “Mahratta” in the last decades of the 19th century. They ...
The Hindu

ICAR-CTCRI releases three improved arrowroot varieties

The ICAR-Central Tuber Crops Research Institute (CTCRI) here has released three improved arrowroot varieties for cultivation in five States including Kerala. This is the first time that improved ...
The Hindu

To expand food basket, CTCRI gives minor tubers a big push

Minor tubers are receiving a big push from the ICAR-Central Tuber Crops Research Institute (CTCRI) here as part of a bid to expand the Indian food basket and guarantee livelihood security. The CTCRI ...
Prokerala

Dugali's tribal women make traditional cola to beat the heat

Dhamtari, May 4 : Summers are here and temperatures are soaring, with the fierce heat leaving throats parched and bodies fatigued. In this tiny Chhattisgarh village, a traditional soft drink made from ...