When the Kerala government recently declared jackfruit the state fruit, celebrations broke out in the small office of Adike Patrike, a Kannada monthly.
Published from Puttur, on the border between Kerala and Karnataka, Adike Patrike has for almost a decade advocated the nutritional benefits of jackfruit and the commercial possibilities from turning it into an array of products such as chips, jam and ready-to-cook pieces.
The announcement in Kerala is a happy vindication of the efforts made by the magazine, which consists of stories reported by farmers as they share their successes in their. . .
