{"id":5248,"date":"2022-12-17T02:49:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T21:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=5248"},"modified":"2025-03-27T05:10:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T23:40:11","slug":"wayanad-rice-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wayanad-rice-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Wayanad Rice Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Wayanad Rice Festival:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The initiative aims to <strong>sensitise people to the significance of conserving traditional crops that have the ability to withstand harsh climatic conditions.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Thanal has been organising annual <strong>\u201crice field weeks\u201d since 2012.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The festival also sets the stage for knowledge sharing and co-creation of knowledge between tribal farmers and experts.<\/li>\n<li>Thanal also launched the <strong>Rice Diversity Block (RDB)<\/strong> at Panavally under the Save Our Rice campaign in 2009, with a collection of 30 varieties of rice.<\/li>\n<li>Most of the varieties were collected from Kerala, Karnataka, Assam, Tamil Nadu, Arunachal Pradesh, Maharashtra and West Bengal.<\/li>\n<li>Many varieties are drought-resistant and flood-tolerant, while others have aromatic and medicinal properties.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Thondy variety<\/strong>, a traditional and popular rice among the people in Wayanad a few decades ago, could compete with any hybrid rice in terms of productivity.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Black rice varieties<\/strong> are rich in minerals like zinc, iron and other nutrients.<\/li>\n<li>India had nearly 1.5 lakh varieties of rice, with about 3,000 varieties unique to Kerala.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Ikki Jathre?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a campaign launched by a Kerala-based organisation, Thanal that aims to raise awareness about the value of preserving indigenous crops that can resist extreme weather conditions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/kerala\/ngos-rice-festival-in-wayanad-gives-a-push-for-traditional-crops\/article66270680.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Hindu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wayanad Rice festival aims to sensitise people to conserve  crops that can withstand harsh climatic conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5249,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5248","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}