Chitradurga: The house of retired teacher B.T. Rudrareddy in front of Veerasoudha in the city has a lush green grapes garden on its roof.Grape cultivation is difficult in Chitradurga because the climatic conditions of the city are not suitable for it. Though one manages to cultivate grapes, the plants need adequate protection from monkeys which are in large numbers here.Accepting these challenges,...
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Indian Ambience Vineyard Private Limited at Tadola village in Basavakalyan taluk.BIDAR: Sanjay Wadikar, Regional Transport Officer at Jalgaon in Maharashtra, who hails from Tadola village in Basavakalyan taluk of Bidar district, has established a winery in the taluk to help farmers augment their income through grape cultivation.His initiative, Indian Ambience Vineyard Private Limited, started functioning...
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Unseasonal rains in last two-three days have badly affected vineyards in Nashik district, causing loss of crores of rupees.Around 62 per cent of vineyards, which were in blossom, have been worse affected by 85 per cent to 100 per cent and that may cause lower production this year, according to sources.However, the actual loss has still not been reported. According to Grape Growers’ Federation, losses...
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Maharashtra deputy chief minister Chhagan Bhujbal today said that the state has suffered losses worth over Rs100-crore due to last week's unseasonal rains and the nature of compensation will be discussed during the cabinet meeting on Thursday."Immediate relief has been provided as per stipulated rules. We are in the process of collecting data and statistics about the losses in terms of damage to crops,...
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A lovely piece on dry martini that I once read went something like this: “Bartender A let the shadow of the vermouth bottle pass over the cocktail glass, while B merely bowed in the direction of France.” The reference was to how much vermouth one was to mix with gin when making a “really dry martini” — apparently, the less, the drier!Fortunately, the same parallel does not apply when making wine —...
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DORKING, England: The pickers working their way along the hillside, clipping bunches of small, dark purple grapes from the rows of vines and dropping them into plastic buckets are harbingers of a warmer planet. In recent years, aided by milder springs and autumns, a few British wineries have revived a red winemaking tradition which died around 600 years ago. Wine aficionados are mixed about the results...
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The heavy and incessant rain that has hit Maharashtra and Gujarat over the last three days, is all set to dent the export of cash crops such as grapes, pomegranates, alphonso mangoes and cashewnuts. Output of other crucial crops such as rice, sugarcane and cotton is also expected to suffer in Konkan, northern and western Maharashtra and southern Gujarat.Maharashtra had witnessed 38,000 tonnes of grape...
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Theyadd tang and crunch to breads, cereals, yogurt and they do a littlesomething for your brain, too. We're talking about berries andwalnuts.Turns out that the polyphenols in walnuts and berrieshelp quell the inflammation and oxidative stress that can injure the brain andlead to memory problems overtime.In fact, the polyphenols in berries and walnuts –as well as in grape juice – are so powerful, some...
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When you think of a winery, you probably imagine the bucolic Napa Valley or the dangling vineyard grapes in French wine country.So when the top wine experts in the congested city of Hong Kong heard about a new winery in town, they were perplexed."My first reaction was, 'Where are the grapes located? Where do people have so much space in Hong Kong to grow grapes?'" said Frank Schuetzendorf, the food...
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Sour grapes The RSS decision to bring down the curtains on the lingering ‘party president’ hopes of some Delhi-based BJP leaders has not come as a surprise to the informed lot in Sangh Parivar circles. Neither were they surprised by the subsequent lament from the camp followers of the affected lot that the RSS was forcing itself into the role of the BJP’s decision-maker. But the big guns of the Parivar...
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