My OperaZero Food Miles programme
Friday, May 9, 2008 2:53:27 AM
“The design of the campus at BCIL Collective ensures that all families are encouraged to grow a few patches of vegetables (greens, gourds, legumes, tubers and corn among cereals), which are organic, and produced in controlled, micro-irrigated land patches in the campus under a one-of-its-kind Zero Food Miles programme.” Hariharan, CEO of BCIL added, “When you buy vegetables that have travelled 100 to 500 km to reach the marketplace, it all adds to the transportation energy of the food. This is a small but significant initiative that heralds portents of the future.” It would also be possible to grow 7 tonnes of vegetables per annum, he said.
