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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | It’s time to localise our food economy -PVS Suryakumar

It’s time to localise our food economy -PVS Suryakumar

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published Published on Aug 12, 2020   modified Modified on Aug 16, 2020

-The Hindu Business Line

The breaking down of supply chains during Covid has exposed the perils of centralisation. Giving a boost to boutique shops that promote local, nutritious and sustainable food is the way forward

The first Satyagraha of Mahatma Gandhi was from Champaran in April 1917. He protested against the high-handedness of the British who coaxed peasants to cultivate ndigo as a cash-crop and later dictated prices. Farmers starved as food security was lost to indigo and had no money to procure food from elsewhere. Mahatma advocated the ‘idea of village republic’ to check centralisation.

After a century, decentralisation is gaining ground and Covid-19 is accelerating it, if one discerningly notices. Experts opine that the contagious Covid-19 will linger on and the only protection is improving one’s immunity through nutritious food. Of late, a surfeit of advertisements are promoting food supplements for boosting immunity. Alongside, boutique shops which sell organic produce and local herbs with traceability QR codes where the food came from, and oil-girnis selling fresh cold pressed cooking oils are coming up in towns/cities as physicians advocate nutritious food to supplements.

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The Hindu Business Line, 12 August, 2020, https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/opinion/its-time-to-localise-our-food-economy/article32308610.ece


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