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600 sq ft rainforest, 100 plant varieties, 17 bird species: Retired Bengaluru techie turns terrace into mini forest with homegrown cherries, dragon fruit, coffee and more, keeping temperatures cooler and the air cleaner- Quality and branding: The twin pillars of India’s global horticulture push
- AI-generated 'Fruit Love Island' takes TikTok by storm
- Grow a Garden porridge recipe: Check steps to make transcendent, prismatic and other types of porridgePorridge recipes are now available. Basic Porridge needs corn, mangoes, and dragon fruit. Transcendent and Prismatic Porridge require Bone ...11 Aug, 2025, 09.44 PM IST
- Fruit for thought: Farmers turn to cultivation of exotic varietiesThese fruits offer up to 50% higher returns than other local fruits, according to experts. "Over the last five years, farmers and entrepren...08 Mar, 2024, 12.32 AM IST
- Bizarre sight out of plane window during flight baffles internet, gets 14 million views, thousands of commentsWhile flying from Ho Chi Minh City to Melbourne, Brad Stewart got a strange sight out of the plane window that has baffled the social media...28 Dec, 2023, 06.07 PM IST
- Post-pandemic binge: Alcohol imports jump 54% in April-JanuaryImports of mandarins (including tangerines and satsumas) increased 13.5% to $6.63 billion in FY23 (April-January) compared with the previou...21 Apr, 2023, 12.22 AM IST
- Paytm's Vijay Shekhar Sharma shares photo of Delhi's kulhad pizza; here are few other crazy food variantsPaytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma on Sunday shared a photo of Delhi’s famous kulhad pizza or pot pizza saying that no one in Italy has eve...06 Mar, 2023, 07.15 PM IST
- This BTech graduate opts farming in UP village; cashing in on dragon fruit cultivationIn 2018, he brought a few saplings of the dragon fruit from Sholapur in Maharashtra and planted them on family-owned barren land. Later, he...10 Sep, 2022, 12.00 PM IST
- As India grows its own 'exotic' fruits and vegetables, imports are plummetingThe import of produce such as durians, leeks and other alliaceous bulbs, capsicums, figs, mangosteen and strawberries has dropped 70-100 pe...19 Jun, 2022, 07.53 PM IST
- India exports first consignment of Dragon Fruit“A consignment of Dragon Fruit for exports was sourced from the farmers of Tadasar village, Sangli district, Maharashtra and it was process...26 Jun, 2021, 07.17 PM IST
- CM Adityanath orders setting up of labs to certify organic farm produce at divisional level in stateLaying emphasis on organic farming, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday said laboratories certifying organic agricultur...09 Feb, 2021, 04.44 PM IST
- Exit the dragon: Can renaming the dragon fruit as kamalam help popularise the pretty but bland fruit?An ingenious attempt has been made by some to brand passion fruit as Krishnaphal in India. Another ongoing attempt that might be more succe...31 Jan, 2021, 10.49 AM IST
- NCP takes dig at BJP over Gujarat government's bid to rename dragon fruit as 'kamalam'Rupani on Tuesday said the Gujarat government has applied for a patent to change the nomenclature of dragon fruit, which is largely grown i...20 Jan, 2021, 03.36 PM IST
- Gujarat government has decided to rename dragon fruit as 'kamalam': Chief Minister RupaniAsked why the name 'Kamalam' has been given to the fruit, Rupani said, "Farmers say it looks like lotus and that is the reason we have name...20 Jan, 2021, 12.46 PM IST
- Demand for work under MGNREGA has 'sharply' increased: SourcesTo provide relief to migrant workers who returned to their villages from across the country during the lockdown, the Centre has expanded th...07 Jul, 2020, 06.47 PM IST
- Exotic fruits become scarce and costlier, as bottlenecks in transportation emergeIndia currently imports 350,000 metric tonnes of fruits per annum, worth about Rs 3,000 crore, which is expected to increase to Rs 4,000 cr...25 Apr, 2020, 11.10 AM IST
- This summer's wondrous fruits: From cempedak to santolWhile the exotica bug has truly bitten the fruit world, celebrity nutritionist Rujuta Diwekar says nutritional benefits lie with native, lo...13 May, 2018, 05.59 AM IST
- Survival guide of a vegetarian Indian in ThailandAnirban Bora isn’t vegetarian, but just realised how tough it is on those who travel to Thailand. Here are his tips and interesting takeawa...06 Apr, 2018, 11.36 PM IST
- India gets a taste of exotic dragon fruit, at lower rate; imports up 20 timesIndia gets most of its dragon fruit — also known as Pitaya — from Vietnam, while local production too is on the rise.28 Nov, 2014, 04.00 AM IST
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