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6-day padayatra by social activists concludes

Staff Reporter

Recipe contests conducted among tribal women

Senior citizens above 90 years felicitated

VISAKHAPATNAM: A six-day padayatra by a team of social activists in the
agency areas of the district traversing a distance of nearly 100 km.
concluded on Saturday.

The team consisted of 29 activists, including Brigadier P. Ganeshan,
Andhra Pradesh coordinator for Honey Bee Network, T.L. Prakash, president
of Society for Research and Initiative Sustainable Technology and
Institutions (Sristi), Balram Sahu, scientist of Orissa Biological
Institute, Anil P. Gupta, professor of Indian Institute of Management,
Ahmedabad and others. The programme to document innovative knowledge of
tribals and subsequently encourage them for value addition and commercial
exploration by patenting their innovation with their consent was organized
jointly by Sristi, Honey Bee Network and Grassroot Innovation Augmentation
Network. Local NGOs Samata, Adivasi Mitra and Sanjeevini coordinated the
programme.

Brigadier Ganeshan told reporters on Sunday that they conducted recipe
and other contests among tribal women and children, interacted with them,
felicitated senior citizens aged above 90 years and tasted food served by
them. “The experience we gained was quite memorable,” he said, and
underlined the need to protect the bio-diversity of the area. He said the
tribal hamlets located on the foothills of Eastern Ghats were rich in
bio-diversity and minerals and called for the need to conduct more
research and documentation on their lifestyle and culture.

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