A one-day workshop on the Package of Practice for Field and Horticulture Crops and the Organic Package of Practices for selected crops of Assam 2023 was held at the College of Veterinary Science,.
Guwahati: Pineapples from Meghalaya’s East Garo Hills have found a place of honour on the shelves of Abu Dhabi stores, with the farmers of the northea.
Pineapples from Meghalaya are exported to Abu Dhabi. Meghalaya has a diverse range of agro-climatic conditions which results in a variety of agricultural and horticultural products. Being grown by local communities in traditional manner, these crops are mostly naturally organic. These factors attribute towards the produce from the state slowly being recognised for their unique quality and taste. Produce like the Lakadong turmeric, GI-tagged Khasi mandarin, Kew pineapples are gaining more and more popularity.
The term “genetically modified organisms” (or “GMOs”) has come into wide use over the past two decades although it is not a scientific term. The terms used in the science community are “genetic engineering” or “genetic modification”. Yet the more popular nomenclature has persisted in part because biotechnology skeptics know that it stigmatizes a safe process. Who would want to eat an “organism”?
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