Description: This perennial, reed-like aquatic plant has sword-shaped and sweet-scented green leaves that can be infused with milk for custards and rice puddings in the same way a vanilla bean or ...

In 1998, Tharati, a small village in Koratagere taluk of Tumkur district, was the only village in the world cultivating the most water intensive crop -- Acorus Calamus (sweet flag or Baje in Kannada, ...

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