Mysuru/Mysore: “Tubers are precious gift to our life given by nature and they represent our unique culture. Unless we preserve that knowledge, there is no future for us,” opined senior Folk Scholar Prof. Kalegowda Nagawara.
Speaking after inaugurating the two-day ‘Roots and Tuber Mela’ which began at Nanjaraja Bahadur Choultry in city this morning, he said “tribal and rural people used to identify and collect wild tubers and consume them as food. Combination of tubers and meat provided their daily requirement of carbohydrate and protein. Even harvesting of tubers was in tune with nature as they used to harvest only a part of available tuber from forest and leave the rest to let them grow for future use, but now, that knowledge and culture is being lost as a result of the spread of modern technologies in rural and tribal areas.”
