Why farmers in Maharashtra are making fruit cakes

Krishnat Patil from Kagal in Kolhapur district celebrated his son’s birthday in a diverse way, with a diverse message. He and his family well prepared a cake making use of watermelon, pineapple, grapes and orange as an alternative of ordering a cake from a bakery. The message was loud and clear — farmers should make their very own cake and also industry it.

Farmers, especially fruit growers, are setting a development, what they connect with ‘a movement’ to popularise birthday cakes built up of levels of contemporary watermelon, papaya and musk melon, and adorned with product, strawberries, grapes and mango slices.

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Cultivating a flavor for novelty

“Fruit growers have suffered closely in the latest times owing to lockdown and now traders are acquiring the generate at very low fees declaring there would be an additional sequence of lockdowns. Farmers are acquiring the lowest cost for the generate and that’s why some farmers have begun this development of fruit cake. It is catching up on social media and farmers are acquiring a superior response” suggests agriculture analyst Deepak Chavan.

Farmer Haribhau Mahajan from Nashik insists that not just birthdays but all events have to be celebrated in this way. He gifted a fruit cake to Sonali and Sagar Wadnerkar to rejoice their marriage anniversary and the few was delighted to mark the celebration in a novel, and healthy, way.

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WHO advice

‘Hoy Amhi Shetkari’ organisation has announced a fruit cake competitors with the ailment that the members have to develop a cake making use of fruits and veggies out there in their very own localities.

Farmers are projecting fruit cakes as a healthy choice to baked cakes and are campaigning for their new solution. The WHO panel on food plan, nourishment and prevention of long-term ailments has advised a each day intake of at the very least four hundred grams (or 5 each day servings with an normal serving dimension of eighty gm) of fruits and veggies, excluding potatoes, cassava and other starchy tubers, to avert food plan-linked long-term ailments and micronutrient deficiencies.

“The lockdown has truly strike hard and farmers will have to come across new ways to market their products making use of new internet marketing systems. Farmers will have to take command in main, secondary and tertiary sectors, only then can farming be financially rewarding,” suggests farmer Sanjay Chavan.