Category: Agriculture
* Karnataka’s Ishad mangoes, Kumta onions, Bhatkal jasmine start journey towards GI tag
The Honnavar betel leaf, known as the queen leaf, is grown only in a few pockets of the taluk.
* Mysore varsity faculty bags national award
Mohan C.D., a faculty at the University of Mysore, has been chosen for Prof. H.S. Srivastava (PHSS) Foundation-Young Scientist (Life Sciences, Environmental Sciences and Agriculture Sciences) award for the year 2020-21.
* Farmer From Kodagu Has Won An Award For Preserving Local Pepper Crop
- Napanda Poonacha of Kodagu district, a progressive farmer, who hopes to be recognized as a pro-nature farmer
- He was recently granted the Plant Genome Saviour Farmer Reward (2019-20) for his efforts to save indigenous ‘Adi Pepper’ crop