The 16th Mobile Biodiversity Festival celebrations of the Deccan Development Society (DDS) will be flagged off on Wednesday from Hoselli village in Nyalkal mandal and will culminate in festivities at DDS’s Green School in Machnoor on 13th February.
Spreading the message
The month-long festival, which seeks to spread environmental spirituality, will be marked by a set of specially-designed bullock carts carrying seeds of local crops passing through the mandal headquarters in Jharasangam, Nyalkal, Raikode and Zaheerabad.
The caravan will be accompanied by folk singers, dancers and other local performers. Public meetings will be held in each mandal to discuss the importance of biodiversity and local seed varieties.
In attendance
The programme will witness the participation of Director of the Centre for Economic and Social Studies (CESS) S. Galeb, senior scientist at the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) G. Umapathy, political activists from Germany Andreas Riekeberg and Franziska Schiessl and Bhanumathi Natarajan of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), Norway.
