Category: Food and Agriculture

Par Nita Chicooree-Mercier

World Soil Day is celebrated on 5th December. In 2013, the 68th UN General Assembly declared this date as World Soil Day to promote the cause of soils.

On 10th November 2015, the Mauritius Sugar Producers Association (MSPA) issued a curt communiqué, stating that its sugar-producing members had unanimously decided to dissolve the Association, ending its

Honey hunting is as old as humanity. A few decades back, people (my father and I included) used to go out in the fields, forests, riverbanks on honey

Fish has since time immemorial been a food for man. It is variously consumed: grilled, fried, steamed, stewed and even eaten raw. Fish includes shrimps, crabs, octopus, and

The quality of food produced locally and of imported food items should be of the utmost importance to us. The public should be demanding on issues related to

Lighter Side of Life – Feel Good

Despite the shrinking share of the agricultural sector in our economy, agricultural production has always been and will for many more years be a major income earner for

Let’s Honestly Face It

This month the cooperative movement in Mauritius is celebrating its 100th anniversary. Ordinance 4 of 1913 was passed on 12 July 1913 ‘to provide for the constitution and

A few weeks ago I wrote an article about the eating habits of human beings, in which I noted that ‘in a spectrum from the ant to the

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