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Sirisha Reddy decided to get organic rice from Rao and offer 50 kg of the produce per day to the Kanaka Durga temple every year (Picture: News18)
The executive official has said that the temple authority will use indigenous varieties of rice to offer ‘Maha Naivedyam’ to the presiding deity and prepare ‘Prasadam’ for distribution among devotees at the hill shrine.
Adding social responsibility to spirituality, two Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) living in the US have come forward to supply 365 indigenous varieties of organic rice to the Vijayawada Kanaka Durga Temple to prepare ‘healthy prasadam’. The presiding deity which is distributed among the devotees.
Hyderabad-based Mounika Reddy and Sirisha Reddy, who live in the US, recently came to know about a farmer named Bapa Rao from Athota village in Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh, who is based on zero-budget natural farming. Cultivating indigenous rice varieties. The method propagated by farmer Subhash Palekar.
The Reddys decided to source organic rice from Rao and offer 50 kg of the produce per day to the Kanaka Durga temple every year.
Accordingly, he introduced 21 rare varieties of organic rice including Balram Saal, Haveli, Kalavati Black Rice, Jalka, Ujala Manipal, Navara, Ruba Phool, Sudi Dhanyam, Bairalodu, Surmatiya, Deorani, Bargali, Badvosh, Kaminibagh, Sikibali, Ramya Gali. handed over to. Eight kg each to Alaskiba, Kanda Sagar, Landmugia, Dasarabali, Kusuma and Indrani to Dharbmulla Bhramaramba, executive officer of Kanak Durga Temple.
The executive official has said that the temple authority will use indigenous varieties of rice to offer ‘Maha Naivedyam’ to the presiding deity and prepare ‘Prasadam’ for distribution among devotees at the hill shrine.
When contacted, Sirisha Reddy told News18, they took this decision so that chemical-free ‘prasadam’ can be made and offered to the devotees of goddess Kanaka Durga, adding that the move will encourage the cultivation of a rare type of indigenous rice. Will also get a boost.
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