KOZHIKODE:  This Onam season is something special for a group of  paddy farmers from Wayanad. Their collective efforts to resurrect paddy culture of Wayanad yielded results as the pesticide-free rice variety ‘Kabani’ hit the market on Thursday. Film director and actor Joy Mathew inaugurated the official launch of Kabani rice by Wayanad Agriculture and Spices Producer Company, the farmers group, […]

The Wayanad Agriculture and Spices Producer Company (WASP Wayanad), the first registered agriculture producer company in the State, is scripting a success saga. While people were increasingly keeping off farming, owing to reasons such as low return from rice cultivation, dearth of workers, and climatic vagaries, a group of farmers launched the venture in June 2013 to rejuvenate farming, especially […]