SURAT: Your daily aloo, baigan and bhindi will soon be just a click away. No more finding your way through the filth at your neighbourhood subzi bazaar and haggling for prices with rude vegetable vendors. An IIM-Ahmedabad graduate has brought the mandi right on your laptop. City-based Akrosh Sharma, who passed out of the elite B-school in 2004, is all set to launch an online vegetable store after running...
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Although vegetable intake is known to providesignificant health benefits, still eight out of 10 people worldwide fall shortof the daily recommendationNow, a new study has revealedthat addition of vegetable juice in daily intake can help cover the gap.Researchers from University of California-Davis have revealed that addition ofvegetable juice in people’s diets was a successful strategy to help themreach...
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Kozhikode: The Vegetable and Fruit Promotion Council Keralam (VFPCK) has intensified efforts to boost domestic and commercial production of vegetables in Kozhikode district in view of the rise in prices of vegetables.Officials said here that the success of the schemes depend on public participation. The ‘My vegetable garden’ scheme to be launched this month aims at reaching households through schoolchildren....
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Dadar resident Prabhavati Shelke (69) is having a hard time. The monthly expenditure for her family of five has gone up from Rs 15,000 to Rs 25,000 because of rising vegetable prices.“Instead of two vegetables, we cook just one,” said Shelke. “Today, I gave my maid some provisions from my stock because she cannot afford to buy them at these inflated prices.”Skyrocketing prices of vegetables have made...
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Dadar resident Prabhavati Shelke (69) is having a hard time. The monthly expenditure for her family of five has gone up from Rs 15,000 to Rs 25,000 because of rising vegetable prices.“Instead of two vegetables, we cook just one,” said Shelke. “Today, I gave my maid some provisions from my stock because she cannot afford to buy them at these inflated prices.”Skyrocketing prices of vegetables have made...
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PETALING JAYA: Vegetable prices in Kuala Lumpur have gone up by 100% in some areas.Kuala Lumpur Vegetable Whole- salers Association president Soo Cheng Kee said the rainy season has caused a supply shortage.“The increase is inevitable due to the bad weather but it is only temporary, until the rainy season ends,” he toldThe city’s supply of vegetables comes from Cameron Highlands, Johor and Negri Sembilan...
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vegetable sellers were fined a total of RM7,600 in court this year for excessive pesticide residue in their produce.State Assistant Minister for Food Industry Datuk David Teng Lung Chi said 2% of the 243 vegetable samples (both imported and locally grown) tested by the Health Department this year were found to contain high pesticide residue.Teng said the Agriculture Department collected an average...
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Identity cards were issued to more farmers to enable them sell vegetables at the ‘uzhavar sandhai’ in Gandarvakottai in Pudukottai district as many farmers were found selling the vegetables on the roadside causing traffic problems, said Collector A. Suganthi here on Wednesday.The Collector said she received information that many farmers were not coming to the ‘sandhai’ at Gandarvakottai inaugurated...
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Vegetable prices in the city have risen steeply over the last three days due to heavy rain and resultant crop loss in Tamil Nadu and reduced inflow of vegetables from Tamil Nadu.With the Sabarimala season approaching, vegetable demand is expected to peak in the next few months, raising concern that prices may not return to normal, though normal vegetable supply is expected to be restored by next week.The...
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SURAT:Your daily aloo, baigan and bhindi will soon be just a click away. No morefinding your way through the filth at your neighbourhood subzi bazaar andhaggling for prices with rude vegetable vendors. An IIM-Ahmedabad graduate hasbrought the mandi right on yourlaptop.City-based AkroshSharma, who passed out of the elite B-school in 2004, is all set to launch anonline vegetable store after running a...
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