Organic Facts - Organic Food Stores in Karnataka

Manjunath - Khandige organic health products

|2008-05-30 11:28:46

Khandige organic health products.

About us:
The promoter family has been leaders in the field of holistic and
sustainable agriculture and education since 1800 with roots to cultivation and practicing Ayurveda. Since
inception, the aim of the company has been to make available the best quality certified organic nutritional
supplements,medicines, food and well-being products to the discerning customers while striving beyond WHO
standards in all aspects.

Today the company owns 4 large estates amounting to over thousand acres of land
holding, numerous farms and fully certified manufacturing facilities producing and marketing certified organic
products in India and abroad.

products:
Ayurvedic products:

Jivan

srikanth - Unhealthy Indians will cause 7 bn-loss to count

|2008-05-21 22:43:19

http://www.ibnlive.com/news/unhealthy-indians-will -cause-237-bnloss-to-country/65678-17.html

Indian
professionals are unhealthy and how! A study by World Health Organisation (WHO) says almost 47 per cent of the
workforce in Indian industries, especially in urban areas, were found to be overweight while around 27 per
cent were suffering from hypertension. Around 10 per cent of those surveyed were also found to be
diabetic.

The survey, which looked at the health of 35,000 employees and their family members, aged 10-69
years in 10 different industries, and 20,000 randomly selected individuals, found workers at greater risk of
developing chronic diseases like heart attack, stroke and cancer .

Due to this rise in lifestyle diseases

srikanth - Common Man's Organic?

|2008-05-21 21:26:10

I am not against Organic Foods but I would like to know in a country like India where many people are dont
have proper food and many children are malnurished how fair it is to introduce Organic foods? Anyway Organic
foods are available to consumers who are willing to pay a premium price. Obviously those people belong to
higher middle class and higher class. We have been eating non-organic foods for centuries and we are doing
fine. I personally believe we should not totally neglect non-organic foods and treat them as poisons. Afterall
that what we were eating till now. What researches found is non-Organic or conventional food have some TRACES
of pesticides which MAY cause effect our health. When we say TRACES all we need to know is the threshold
value, the limit beyond which it is dangerous. In a country like India where we have Billions of people, to
meet the basic food needs of those people, our poor farmers have to depend on these pesticides to increase
productivity. When Indians have become so Health Consious when they still drink,smoke,over-eat,spit on the
roads, indulge in road-rages, take dowry. Here I want to make a point, that is there are many bigger issues in
our society we need to address in a bigger way then to promote Organic Foods in a bigger way. If you dont do
any of those deeds(drink,smoke...) which I mentioned above, only then you are eligible to have a better food.
Even then you have one more deed to do. Grow your own food. Dont think, I am kidding. We do it. In what ever
backyard space you have at your home, grow the most frequently used veggies. We grow tomatoes, peas, methe
leaves, Green-chillies, Garden leaves and few flowers. We are so over-whelmed by the amount of tomatoes we
have grown in the last season. If you dont have enough or no space in the backyard, ask you neighbours' space.
Share your grown veggies with them. Hope you understand, whether we deserve a better food?

Kiran Patil - Hi

|2008-05-29 07:06:06

Hi Srikanth,

You have asked a very valid question. This needs a detailed answer. I will put my thoughts in
a separate article.

In brief, organic food is, presently out of the reach of the common man in
India.

However, we should note that the Indian agricultural system (and same is the case in other countries
too) relies heavily on subisdies given for chemical farming. The entire system of chemical farming is
uneconomic when we take these subsidies into consideration (in addition, there is loss of fertility, and
increased health expenditure due to pollution caused by pesticides and fertilzers). Presently, the prices of
orgaic food are high as very few farmers produce it, and there is more labor cost and low producvity. With
time, as these subsidies are removed from chemical farming (increasing crude oil prices will add additional
pressures), and the productivity of organic farming increases (normally an organic farm shows increase in
productivity if the farm is maintained through organic means for 15-20 years), organic farming will become a
viable option. Ofcourse, we need to carry out research on organic farming also, as we do for chemical farming,
to supplement the increasing population and higher per capita food intake in India.

About your comment that
people should focus on other societal issues rather than eating organic food, I think its a wrong approach. We
should work on all these 'issues' simultaneously, with each one of us focusing on what he or she likes to work
on (if at all). Someone would prefer to avoid drinking but not eat organic food. Another person will drink but
also eat organic food. Let us leave it upto people to decide what they think is important for
them.

Regards,
Kiran

K.V Bhat - Organic Farming

|2008-07-03 12:40:22

Dear Srikanth,

There are certain points which I would like to highlight:

1. Organic food is more
expensive than conventional food. This is because of Demand and supply mismatch.
As the price of petroleum
based farm inputs keeps going up, more and more farmers will have to abandon chemical farming.
It is much
easier to collect Organic manure from the back parts of cows and buffalos than to depend on Government
subsidized chemical inputs.
2. prior to the Green revolution entire country was Organic since no one
Chemically farmed, applied synthetic fertilizers and toxic pesticides before this period. Therefore we can say
that Organic food produce was the norm since immemorial time. Chemical farming is 40

Kiran Patil

|2008-05-18 00:18:31

Dear Bhushan,

We are in the process of preparing a database of organic food stores, farms and suppliers
throughout the world.

Please send us your contact details at kiran@organicfacts.net

Regards,
Kiran

Ajeet Godara - organic foods producer,exporter

|2008-05-29 06:13:18

we at natureland organic foods do contract farming in group format and do sells our organic products.so if any
retailer intrested to keep organic foods in its store then most welcome.

amit sud - Dandelion and Hibiscus Tea

|2008-05-25 11:59:08

Hi ,

am looking for Dandelion and Hibiscus tea.. would it be possible for your company to procure them
...or do you stock them / sell them..

Pls revert earliest

Amit

Bhushan H Deshpande - bhushan

|2008-05-18 00:21:33

We grow organic vegetables in belgaum dist. Gokak.
so we wanted a dealer 2 buy our products
for a deserved
rate.....

Mohan Kumar - Organic foods

|2008-06-11 23:44:39

Dear sir
We have certified organic food store in bangalore called Era Organic.
We are selling all kinds of
certified organic products like vegetables, rice, ragi, cerals, spices, oil, fruits etc

if you want to join
us pls contact us
Mr. Mohan
Manager

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