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Learn to party wild pores in concrete forests

Nagpur: Ruan-Bhaji Mahotsav (wild vegetable festival), a unique feature of the Nagpur Division where local residents and tribes carrying vegetables grown naturally during the rainy season for exhibitions and sales, starting on Monday in Nagpur and Bhandara.
This festival is held every year since 2017, except 2020 because of Covid-19.
With the situation at Covid Front Easing, the two districts continued this year’s festival.
Organizers, supported by government agriculture departments, said that vegetables raised naturally were the best immunity amplifiers.
Many edible plants grow in the forest, bound livestock and on the roadside where small soil land is available especially during the rainy season.
They are called wild vegetables or Raan Bhaji.
“These plants are still part of our traditional diet.
This wild vegetables grows naturally without fertilizer chemical tips, pesticides and rich with micronutrients and drug properties,” said Hindurao Chavan, agricultural supervisor from Bhandara Regency.
The tribes and women attached to the self-help group did not only carry these vegetables from forests and villages, but also shared special recipes with visitors.
“The Bhandara district is rich in natural resources.
We have arranged this festival in Bhandara, Mohadi, Tumsar, Paoni, Sakoli, Lakhni, and Lakhandur,” Chavan said.
In Nagpur, the festival was opened at Sarpanch Bhavan where the commissioner Divisional Prajaka Lavangare and Collector Vimala R also paid a visit on the first day.
“This wild vegetables can be more delicious and more nutritious than vegetables that are usually available on the market.
This can be planted in the home garden too.
For urbanists, these vegetables can offer a break from monotonous food everyday,” Vandana Bhele’s agricultural development officer said.
The Division Commissioner appreciated the way of organizers had displayed the medicinal properties and health benefits of this vegetables.
“I hope this initiative will introduce wild vegetable treasures to the generation of young cities,” he said.
Some of the benefits of Cassia Tora, known as Tarota Bhai locally, are considered effective against asthma and the pain carried by the Monsoon Chills Khaparkhuti (Boerhaavia Diffusa) is a soft and delicious creeper which tastes like spinach, but the iron source gets better ( Commelina Benghalensis) Soft Potions are a rich source of protein that can be consumed entirely Kukurda Bhaji (Celosia Argentea) cooked with a handful of Indian sorrel leaves and is a rich source of phosphorus (wild / sickle), Kusa (Zucchini), Katwal (spiked pumpkin) , Mataru, Chiwal, Bhui-Beginning, Umbar, Jabaw and many more who appear and sold

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