Asafoetida Subject – Agriculture Context – With many uses listed by researchers, perhaps it is time to go for Asafoetida Concept – Asafoetida has been known since the Mahabharata times, and has been imported from Afghanistan. The Bhagavata Purana says that one should not eat hing before worshipping deity. Indian historical records suggest […]

    Asafoetida Subject – Agriculture Context – As Himalayan farmers grow the country’s first asafoetida plants, changing weather threatens to play spoilsport Concept – It is a herbaceous plant of the umbelliferae family. It is a perennial plant whose oleo gum resin is extracted from its thick roots and rhizome. The plant stores most […]