Tulsi on a global journey

  • 29/01/2009

  • Indian Express (New Delhi)

Alka Pandey Posted: Jan 30, 2009 at 2309 hrs IST Lucknow: It wasn't the whiff of money but faith in the small, inconspicuous plant in his courtyard that nudged Kailash Nath Singh, now 87, to venture into something unheard of more than a decade ago. When Organic India, then Indo-Israel Trading Corporation (IITC), asked him to take up organic cultivation (without the use of chemicals and fertilisers) of tulsi or Indian Basil, Kailash, bogged down by low yield from his farm and debts, was wary.