Acceptability of Ethno-Cultural Vegetables Increases.....

Food is an important component of culture. It is a symbol of unity, socialisation, and spirituality.  Even away from home, the nostalgia for ‘home food’ remains very strong; this has resulted in the continued transportation of ethno-cultural foods into Canada.  This is expected because with a diverse culture comes multiplicity in foods and food habits.  The diversity has not...

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Why farmers should consider ethno-cultural vegetables?

In 2003, the Small Farm Institute at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore in US decided to start researching ethnic and speciality produce. The question that led to this research was ‘Will mid-Atlantic farms survive recent changes in agricultural and population patterns?’  What was happening in the Mid-Atlantic region that was of such great concern? Farms and farm land were slowly disappearing,...

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