Traditional rice varieties 🌾 of India is a part of India's rich rice diversity. The REAL Pongal news 2020 is "How & why to conserve the rice genetic diversity"! 🍽 Check out Traditional Rices from BIO BASICS ...
This video is NOT a paid associations with Bio Basics. The reference is out of my choice, as, for over 5 years now, we have had the good fortune of enjoying a choice of over 20+ organic unpolished and semi polished rice varieties 🍚 - thanks to the initiatives of Bio Basics with which my husband is associated. Bio Basics products are genuinely organic.
Bio Basics is a Social Venture committed to the well being of India's organic farmers and our environment. They believe that just the one act of consuming organic food impacts not just the health of the consumers 💪, but also the health & well-being of our farmers 🏕 and our Planet Earth 🌏!
This video is also about
(a) India's 🇮🇳agrobiodiversity
(b) Loss of agrobiodiversity over the centuries.
(c) Agrobiodiversity Conservation
Pongal is just round the corner. This is what the harvest festival of Makara Sankranti is called in Tamilnadu.
For a Tamilian, the word Pongal evokes reminders of two common traditional dishes that go by the same name
The sweet version is called Sakkarai Pongal… and
The salted version is called Ven Pongal
The base ingredient in both these preparations is Rice… And in Tamilnadu Pongal is celebration of culmination of harvest of rice.
This video shares with you some AMAZING facts related to rice diversity, traditional rice varieites and traditional rice nutrition…
Rice is an integral part of our lives in many parts of India - right from birth to death.
A child is introduced to cooked rice through this ritual called “Anna prashnam”. And rice continues to be a part of every ritual from marriage to death.
This is not without a reason. Do you know that India and the entire South-east Asia has been the host to an incredible diversity of rices? Let me share some unbelievable numbers with you…
How many varieties of rice do most of us eat? Perhaps 3 to 5 at best, am I right? And of course all of it is fully polished & white, so we hardly know the difference of one from another.
But how many types of rice are there in India? How many varieties were grown say two centuries ago? You will be surprised to find the answers.
The decline of this INCREDIBLE genetic diversity began during the British colonisation & PEAKED after the Green Revolution in 1960
At this time, Dr. RH Richharia, then Director of the Central Rice Research Institute, Odisha, undertook a journey from India’s west coast to its east coast to collect varieties of rice being grown across India. He himself collected about 22,500 varieties of rice. This was the biggest Indian collection and the 2nd biggest in the world!
There are various NGO initiatives that have tried to conserved what little is left. A good example is Save Our Rice Campaign, initiated by a Kerala based NGO, Thanal. This initiative has conserved over 1,100 varieties of rice... 250 varieties in Wayanad in Kerala, over 700 varieties in Karnataka, over 140 varieties in Tamil Nadu. There are many more initiatives like this at work across India.
I want you to contrast it with the number of varieties of rice that YOU eat.
Are you wondering what the point is of having so much rice diversity?
Watchout for an exciting new video release every Saturday at 8 AM.
Munch & Mull is a platform to share various aspects of our food, health & environment through the medium of vegetarian recipes. So our focus is "The Mull Point". Check us out here...
Have you subscribed to Munch & Mull? If not, click the link below:
And do watch these playlists:
1. The Magic of Millet Recipes -
2. Easy Recipes -
3. Variety Rice with Rice Varieties -
4. Green Family, Green Festivals -
Do write back to me with your suggestions for improvement of this channel and any questions or feedback at munchandmull@gmail.com
#Pongal
#TraditionalRice
#Agrobiodiversity
#Biodiversity
#MakarSankranti
#GlutenFree
#healthyeating
#Jaggery
#vegetarianrecipes
#veganrecipes
#healthylifestyle
#healthyfood
#nutrition
#organicfood
#IndianRecipes
#healthy
#HealthyMeals
0 Comments