Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Monday, May 31, 2004
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Food & Cuisine Unlikely delicacy K.K. Mustafah
Tapioca being loaded in to a mini-lorry in Kochi. Once a staple food of Keralites, tapioca has acquired the status of a delicacy following substantial drop in production as farmers have shifted to other cash crops such as rubber. Its production, which was 26.3 lakh tonnes in 1998-99, has dropped to around two lakh tonnes at present. Tapioca production in the 1950s and '60s was said to be over 1 crore tonnes a year.
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