Mysuru: Jackfruit festival concludes with a call to conserve indigenous varieties
The jackfruit festival in Mysuru concluded with a focus on conserving indigenous fruit varieties. Deputy Conservator of Forests Shankare Gowda highlighted the importance of preserving local jackfruit and mango species for future generations. The event attracted over 6,000 visitors and facilitated significant sales of jackfruit and mango products.
- ▪The festival featured a painting competition for children, promoting awareness of jackfruit.
- ▪A Kisan Mall was established to provide farmers and consumers with organic products and agricultural tools.
- ▪The event recorded business transactions worth nearly ₹30 lakh over two days.
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The two-day jackfruit festival concluded at Nanjaraja Bahadur choultry in Mysuru on Sunday (May 17), with Deputy Conservator of Forests (Social Forestry) Shankare Gowda urging people to conserve and popularise the indigenous varieties of the fruit.“Our Mysuru region is home to diverse varieties of jackfruit and mango. Our forest regions are a treasure house of sour mango trees and other wild mango species. Rare varieties of jackfruit are also found here. If we fail to conserve them, future generations may not even get to see these varieties,” he said, while emphasising on the need to identify, conserve, and popularise such indigenous varieties.He was speaking after distributing prizes to children who participated in the ‘Na Kandante Halasu’ (’Jackfruit Through My Eyes’) painting…
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