Focus on value of ethnic food

Trichy | Wednesday | 22nd March, 2017

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TASTY : Visitors at the food festival in Tiruchi on Tuesday. This is the second edition of the annual food festival. more-inTen stalls brought the flavour of ethnic millets and grains alive for staff and students of St Joseph’s College at in-campus Heritage Food Festival organised by the Extension Department, Shepherd, on Tuesday. “We wanted to motivate students to know more about native food grain varieties so that they can opt for a healthier diet,” S Lenin, coordinator, Shepherd Extension Department, said. Extension Department – ‘Shepherd’ is the outreach programme of St Joseph’s College that carries out rural empowerment projects in 69 villages with an overall population of 48,000 people located in the five development blocks (Manikandam, Andanallur, Thogamalai, Kulithalai and Viralimalai)..