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Home-grown remedy to food shortage

Being self-reliant: Forest Minister Benoy Viswom inaugurating the Project Green Kerala 2008 in Thiruvananthapuram on Wednesday

Thiruvananthapuram: ‘Project Green Kerala 2008,’ a programme launched by the State unit of the Art of Living Foundation, to promote homestead-level farming, took off here on Tuesday with a formal inauguration by Forest Minister Benoy Viswom on the premises of the Vyakti Vikas Kendra.

The project seeks to distribute 10 lakh saplings and seeds of fruit-bearing trees, vegetables and medicinal plants to households across the State.

President of the Kerala apex body of Art of Living G. Rajamohan and other leaders of the foundation were present on the occasion.

The project is designed to reduce Kerala’s dependence on neighbouring States for vegetables, fruits and other food products.

Mr. Rajmohan said the aim of the project would be to try to ensure that each family gets at least one vegetable from its own premises to prepare this year’s ‘Onasadya.’

Seeds and saplings will be distributed by the Art of Living centres throughout Kerala.

Art of Living volunteers will visit houses in their neighbourhood and help in planting the saplings.

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