While Sankranti is a time when the popularity of kite-flying picks up, it is also a time when animal and avian welfare organisations in Bengaluru receive most number of bird rescue calls.
JANUARY 15 2018: View Full Article
To showcase farmers’ culture and traditions, the Karnataka government plans to hold ‘Sankranti Suggi-Huggi Habba’ on January 14.
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Though Sankranti is a harvest festival, it is celebrated in a dozen different ways across the state. At Lalbagh Botanical Garden here on Sunday, hundreds of visitors got a sense of what the kite festival is like in regions of the state such as Bayalu Seema Prantha, Are Malenadu, Mumbai Karnataka, Hyderabad Karnataka, Malnad, Mysuru, Madhya Karnataka and Karavali.
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Lalbagh botanical garden wore a festival look on Sunday. Visitors were treated with an array of crops particularly millets, craftwork, cultural programmes.
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Folk dance, drum beats, kite flying, bedecked cows, savouring sweet pongal and millets, marked the sunny Sunday afternoon at Lalbagh, where thousands thronged to celebrate Suggi Huggi Habba. Organised by Agriculture Department, along with Kannada and Culture Department, to celebrate Sankranti, Lalbagh looked more like a boisterous village fair, instead of a quiet garden.
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The Lalbagh rock on Sunday turned an epicentre for a jatre of sorts, with the botanical garden hosting Suggi Huggi, the harvest festival with all its attendant highlights like kite festival, bullock cart ride, fire-jumping bulls and raashi puja among other things.
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To showcase the heritage of the State on Sankranti, the Department of Kannada and Culture and the Department of Agriculture are jointly conducting an event – Suggi Huggi – at Lalbagh on Sunday.
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The Scenic Bengaluru Palace will be thebackdrop for a massive organic and millets International Trade Fairbeginning here on January 19 to promote use of organic and milletsbased food in a big way.
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Millets will be part of mid-day meals in 10 government and aided schools as part of a pilot project that started on Friday.
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The Akshaya Patra Foundation on Friday launched a pilot programme in partnership with the state government to introduce millets in the mid-day meal scheme. The event was held at a government higher primary school in Kumaraswamy Layout.
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The department of agriculture launched a project on Friday to introduce millets in the midday meal scheme with an aim to enhance the nutritional intake of children.
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Would you like a pint of foxtail beer to go with til laddoo? Students and faculty of MS Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences have found a way to malt millets for beer, which means we could have a tipple that is made from indigenous ingredients instead of relying on expensive and imported malted barley.
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After having successfully promoted millets to be used in delicacies and every day tasty food, the government of has now decided to step it up a notch by successfully attracting interest from the city based watering holes to promote millet based beer.
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If you are in Bengaluru, the beer you sip in the city’s microbreweries may very soon be made out of the humble millet, rather than the traditional barley. This, thanks to the Karnataka government’s push to promote millets.
JANUARY 12 2018: View Full Article
Nutrient-rich millets such as jowar, foxtail and pearl millets, considered as smart foods, are being introduced in the mid-day meal schemes in Karnataka and Telangana by the The Akshaya Patra Foundation (TAPF) on a pilot basis.
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Millets will be part of mid-day meals in 10 government and aided schools as part of a pilot project that started on Friday.
JANUARY 13 2018: View Full Article
The Akshaya Patra Foundation on Friday launched a pilot programme in partnership with the state government to introduce millets in the mid-day meal scheme. The event was held at a government higher primary school in Kumaraswamy Layout.
JANUARY 13 2018: View Full Article
The department of agriculture launched a project on Friday to introduce millets in the midday meal scheme with an aim to enhance the nutritional intake of children.
JANUARY 13 2018: View Full Article
Would you like a pint of foxtail beer to go with til laddoo? Students and faculty of MS Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences have found a way to malt millets for beer, which means we could have a tipple that is made from indigenous ingredients instead of relying on expensive and imported malted barley.
JANUARY 16 2018: View Full Article
After having successfully promoted millets to be used in delicacies and every day tasty food, the government of has now decided to step it up a notch by successfully attracting interest from the city based watering holes to promote millet based beer.
JANUARY 13 2018: View Full Article