{"id":23581,"date":"2020-06-19T06:42:12","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T06:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=23581"},"modified":"2020-06-19T06:42:14","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T06:42:14","slug":"kvic-rolls-out-unique-project-to-produce-neera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/kvic-rolls-out-unique-project-to-produce-neera\/","title":{"rendered":"KVIC rolls out unique project to produce Neera"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) has rolled out a unique project to produce Neera and Palm jaggery which has huge potential to create employment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\"><strong>Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key-Points<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The project is aims to promote Neera as a substitute to soft drinks and also creating self-employment to Adivasis and traditional trappers was launched at Dahanu in Palghar district of Maharashtra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Neera, extracted from palm trees before sunrise, is a nutrient-rich health drink consumed in many states. However, due to lack of institutionalized market technique, the commercial production and large scale marketing of Neera has not commenced yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are about 10 crore palm trees across the country and a wide range of products like candies, milk chocolates, palm cola, ice-cream and traditional sweets can be produced from neera if properly marketed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India has an abundance of palm fields in states like Maharashtra, Gujarat, Goa, Daman &amp; Diu, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar that can make India a leading producer of Neera globally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) has rolled out a unique project to produce Neera and Palm jaggery which has huge potential to create employment. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The project is aims to promote Neera as a substitute to soft drinks and also creating self-employment to Adivasis and traditional trappers was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":23582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[870],"tags":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-23581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-2020"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23583,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23581\/revisions\/23583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23581"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=23581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}