Bhiva Parab Panaji: Increasing health consciousness is taking consumers away from large scale commercially grown crops and towards locally grown vegetables like ‘mulo’, ‘gadde’ or ‘naab’, ‘chavali palo’, and ‘tambdi bhaji’ due to their low pesticide residues. Goan farmers, especially those cultivating vegetables, rely minimally on synthetic pesticides, a practice largely influenced by the region’s […]

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