ये आम हैं बहुत ख़ास, जानें किस राज्य में किस आम के स्वाद का है राज
ये आम हैं बहुत ख़ास, जानें किस राज्य में किस आम के स्वाद का है राज

By गाँव कनेक्शन

Pahun Padauna, Gulab Khas, Bauasin Bhog — Exploring Not So ‘Aam’ Varieties of Mangoes
Pahun Padauna, Gulab Khas, Bauasin Bhog — Exploring Not So ‘Aam’ Varieties of Mangoes

By Laraib Fatima Warsi

There couldn’t be a more horrifying travesty for a fruit as appetising as mango to be named after someone’s fart. But that’s not all. At Bihar’s Mithila Mango Festival, the unique varieties of mangoes on display have names that can drive you to your wit’s end! Read on.

There couldn’t be a more horrifying travesty for a fruit as appetising as mango to be named after someone’s fart. But that’s not all. At Bihar’s Mithila Mango Festival, the unique varieties of mangoes on display have names that can drive you to your wit’s end! Read on.

Paddy, sugarcane, and now mango orchards – 75 years of changing farming patterns in Chittoor
Paddy, sugarcane, and now mango orchards – 75 years of changing farming patterns in Chittoor

By Sweta Akundi

Aragonda village in Thavanampalle Mandal of Andhra Pradesh is famous for its mango varieties – Banganapalle, Neelam, Imampasand, Totapuri, Kalapadi. But a couple of decades ago, its farmers were known to grow paddy followed by sugarcane. What brought about this change?

Aragonda village in Thavanampalle Mandal of Andhra Pradesh is famous for its mango varieties – Banganapalle, Neelam, Imampasand, Totapuri, Kalapadi. But a couple of decades ago, its farmers were known to grow paddy followed by sugarcane. What brought about this change?

The raw and beautiful mango
The raw and beautiful mango

By Pankaja Srinivasan

It is that time of the year when mangoes have started appearing in the market, friends are exchanging recipes and there is excitement in the air as it is the heralding of the new year across India, be it Baisakhi, Bihu, Vishu, or Puthandu.

It is that time of the year when mangoes have started appearing in the market, friends are exchanging recipes and there is excitement in the air as it is the heralding of the new year across India, be it Baisakhi, Bihu, Vishu, or Puthandu.

Mango production in India to be hit due to early arrival of heatwaves
Mango production in India to be hit due to early arrival of heatwaves

By Sumit Yadav

Prolonged winter till February followed by a sudden rise in temperature in March bring bad tidings to mango cultivators, who have reported low yields this year. The drastic jump in mercury affected fertilisation and the mango flowers withered and dropped off the trees.

Prolonged winter till February followed by a sudden rise in temperature in March bring bad tidings to mango cultivators, who have reported low yields this year. The drastic jump in mercury affected fertilisation and the mango flowers withered and dropped off the trees.

Not all is well with mango farming in Manglaur
Not all is well with mango farming in Manglaur

By गाँव कनेक्शन

In the 1990s, growing up in Uttar Pradesh was synonymous with devouring tasty Langda, Dussehri and Chausa mangoes with one's bare hands in the sweltering summer. I still swear by the langda

In the 1990s, growing up in Uttar Pradesh was synonymous with devouring tasty Langda, Dussehri and Chausa mangoes with one's bare hands in the sweltering summer. I still swear by the langda

Getting Hammered from Pole to Pole and Tropic to Tropic
Getting Hammered from Pole to Pole and Tropic to Tropic

By Nidhi Jamwal

Spring did not show up this year, but there has been fresh snowfall in April and May in some of the Himalayan states. Heatwaves are rising, lasting up to 36 days a year! But the monsoon rainfall over the Indo-Gangetic plains has reduced. India annually loses 101 billion work hours, equivalent to about 23 million jobs, due to the heat stress.

Spring did not show up this year, but there has been fresh snowfall in April and May in some of the Himalayan states. Heatwaves are rising, lasting up to 36 days a year! But the monsoon rainfall over the Indo-Gangetic plains has reduced. India annually loses 101 billion work hours, equivalent to about 23 million jobs, due to the heat stress.

The Goodness of the Bitter Neem
The Goodness of the Bitter Neem

By Pankaja Srinivasan

It is the puthandu (Tamil new year), and the gorgeous white neem flowers are bountiful. Across many households in the south of India, the flowers are incorporated into special recipes. Not just because they taste good, but also because they bring home the message that life is beautiful like the neem tree, but it also brings with it bitterness, which is necessary for the good health of the body, mind and soul. Here’s a quick recipe of neem flower rasam.

It is the puthandu (Tamil new year), and the gorgeous white neem flowers are bountiful. Across many households in the south of India, the flowers are incorporated into special recipes. Not just because they taste good, but also because they bring home the message that life is beautiful like the neem tree, but it also brings with it bitterness, which is necessary for the good health of the body, mind and soul. Here’s a quick recipe of neem flower rasam.

From Rs 30 a kg to Rs 80 in a month, tomato prices shoot up with rising temeratures and falling production
From Rs 30 a kg to Rs 80 in a month, tomato prices shoot up with rising temeratures and falling production

By Sumit Yadav

After wheat, mango, litchi and lemon, farmers who grow tomatoes have reported low production as the heatwave dries up the tomato flowers before they fruit. Because of low availability of tomatoes, their prices have hit the roof.

After wheat, mango, litchi and lemon, farmers who grow tomatoes have reported low production as the heatwave dries up the tomato flowers before they fruit. Because of low availability of tomatoes, their prices have hit the roof.

As parts of the world become hotter and drier, one wonders where the butterflies will go
As parts of the world become hotter and drier, one wonders where the butterflies will go

By Neha Sinha

Watching a butterfly is therapeutic. They seem to live in their own dreamlike state, floating, dipping, fluttering, even as the rest of the world crashes, burns and fights

Watching a butterfly is therapeutic. They seem to live in their own dreamlike state, floating, dipping, fluttering, even as the rest of the world crashes, burns and fights

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