Krishnat Patil from Kagal in Kolhapur district celebrated his son’s birthday in a various fashion, with a various concept. He and his family ready a cake making use of watermelon, pineapple, grapes and orange instead of ordering a cake from a bakery. The concept was loud and crystal clear — farmers need to make their individual cake and also current market it.


 

Farmers, primarily fruit growers, are placing a development, what they get in touch with ‘a movement’ to popularise birthday cakes created up of levels of clean watermelon, papaya and musk melon, and decorated with product, strawberries, grapes and mango slices.

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“Fruit growers have suffered closely in modern instances thanks to lockdown and now traders are purchasing the generate at minimal prices declaring there would be a different collection of lockdowns. Farmers are having the most affordable price for the generate and as a result some farmers have begun this development of fruit cake. It is catching up on social media and farmers are having a very good response” states agriculture analyst Deepak Chavan.

Farmer Haribhau Mahajan from Nashik insists that not just birthdays but all situations ought to be celebrated in this way. He gifted a fruit cake to Sonali and Sagar Wadnerkar to celebrate their relationship anniversary and the few was delighted to mark the occasion in a novel, and healthy, fashion.

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WHO recommendation

‘Hoy Amhi Shetkari’ organisation has introduced a fruit cake level of competition with the situation that the individuals ought to create a cake making use of fruits and greens out there in their individual localities.

Farmers are projecting fruit cakes as a healthy alternative to baked cakes and are campaigning for their new product. The WHO panel on diet, nutrition and avoidance of continual diseases has advised a day-to-day consumption of at the very least four hundred grams (or five day-to-day servings with an ordinary serving sizing of 80 gm) of fruits and greens, excluding potatoes, cassava and other starchy tubers, to avert diet-connected continual diseases and micronutrient deficiencies.

“The lockdown has really strike really hard and farmers will have to uncover new approaches to market their merchandise making use of new advertising and marketing programs. Farmers will have to just take command in most important, secondary and tertiary sectors, only then can farming be lucrative,” states farmer Sanjay Chavan.