Spreading wine-making skills... and Louis Vaz of Saligao (Loumel's)

Here's Miguel Braganza's report... which mentions our Saligaonetter
Louis Vaz (who, with his wife Melissa, runs Loumels). Great going
Louis. Cashew wine too! FN

Spreading wine-making skills
Submitted by miguelbraganza on May 7, 2006 - 4:22pm.

Last year, many persons were disappointed that they could not taste,
or even get a whiff of, the Kokum wine prepared under the guidance of
a researcher at Goa University. Most people complained.... but some
decided to change the situation.

Dr. John Rodrigues of Chichinim, who was formerly doing product
development for Hoechst [prounced as Hext] medicines now has four
variants of Kokum wine in both sec (dry) and demi-sec (semi-dry)
types. You can smell it, taste it and buy it to drink at home.

Carlos Figueiredo of Aldona also has made kokum fruit wine for home
consumption.He bagged the third prize in the competition. May their
tribe increase.

CASHEW WINE TOO: In 2003, Lumina Lobo was the sole entrepreneur making
sweet cashew wine (doce/douce). Today she has competition from John
Rodrigues and Luis of Saligao who also have cashew wine. She has added
a demi-Sec to her list.

So have the others. She has added Jamun wine to her list. So have the
others. Lumina bagged the first prize for her wine at the
competition.In the years to come we are likely to have a lot of sweet
summer wine!

Demi-Sec and Sec wines will follow because men will be men.

Making wine with the end of summer fruits has a distinct advantage
over spoiling the fruit.

Shivani Arolkar of Kudal is back with mangoes and more... juices and
RTD (ready to drink) fruit juices (cashew, kokum, mango and amla) for
the hot summer afternoons.

D'Souza Biotech's Frugurt (fruity yogourt) was a hit last
summer at the KFF. It is back at the fest. So are the fresh fruit
ice-creams from Sonam's Frosty. Sonam, samja karo.

You have sampled the wares of Canancona, Panjim and Pilar Self-Help
Groups (SHGs) since 2003. This year the first Federation of 55 SHGs
under the name of Disha Rural Women's SHG Association of Anjuna has
burst on the scene.

On April 25, Disha SHG Association had a mini-fair cum training
session in waste management at Anjuna. The member SHGs had a turnover
of about half a lakh rupees in the four hour event.

Activities range from catering (through Rural Polytechnic scheme) to
to beauticians to fashion designing. And you thought that SHGs only
make pappads, laddoos and chakri?

Dr.Ajit Shirodkar is promoting scientific mango cultivation and
packaging to brand "Goa Mangoes" on his own and Kokum cultivation
through the Western Ghats Kokum Foundation. He is a Euro GAPs (Good
Agricultural Practices) certified mango grower with an orchard and
ripening chamber at Devgad, the home of the best Alphonso and Kesar
mangoes.

The ICAR-Goa Research Complex promotes new technologies. So also the
University of Agricultural Sciences-Dharwad and the Konkan Krishi
Vidyapeth's Regional Fruit Research Station-Vengurla.

The seeds of change grow on Jatropha curcas, the bio-diesel plant. The
Pilar Nature Farm will promote Jatropha for planting along the
boundaries as bio-fence and on wasteland to revegetate them while
earning good revenue through bio-diesel. Fossil fuel is not going to
last forever.

Jatropha is not recommended as an alternative to any crop; it is a
good supplement in Goa conditions of climate, including labour
availability and pilferage.
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