Unusual duel of blooms & bees - Horticulture and honey mission cross swords over pesticide use

Kohima/New Delhi: It is a strange duel in India’s Northeast — between organic honeybees and inorganic flowers — that threatens the “organic label” and exposes the growing rural-urban divide.

On the one hand, is a small village on the Myanmar border that is a model for exploiting a multi-crore rupee honey market abroad.
Away in the big towns of Nagaland, the rich and famous want capital-intensive floriculture to be the mainstay for the state.

The result is a clash between a pioneering Nagaland Honey and Bee Mission and the government’s obsession of some years, floriculture. Read more of the article by NISHIT DHOLABHAI at the Telegraph site>