New lease of life for nearly extinct Kodagu orange

By Staff
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Google Oneindia News

Bangalore, June 9 (UNI) The famous oranges of Kodagu, nearly extinct now, has got a new lease of life, with biopharma major Avesthagen providing a helping hand to improve the stock.

The company had recently bought an 87-acre plantation on Hassan-Kodagu border in Karnataka to raise Kodagu oranges.

Avesthagen Founder and Managing Director Dr Villoo Moravala Patell told newspersons here today that the company had thus started backward integration as peels of Kodagu orange provided an important input for growth of bones. Avesthagen had found in tests using the peel some growth in bones and decided to take it up as a project.

She said the company had also acquired 10,000 saplings of Kodagu orange from the Orange Research Institute. They were being planted in fallow land adjoining the coffee plantations.

Avesthagen was in the process of developing eleven molecules for biosimilar products and had obtained clearance for the second phase of trials of a molecule, anti-TNF Alpha, an anti-inflammatory drug.

Dr Patell said the company also planned to take up integrated development of a few villages in Bidar district of Karnataka, where a large number of farmers' suicides have been reported. The framework for development had not been planned yet. However, the company would provide all necessary technical input to improve the lot of farmers in these villages.

UNI

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