Times Evoke: Need to save India’s native crops

​​​Red okra from Karnataka. Black rice from Gujarat. Red corn from Tamil Nadu. What you would describe as exotic varieties of food today are mostly indigenous crops that belong to a specific region, once standard local fare that got gradually overrun by the high-yield, heavily-marketed varieties.

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