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I will be heading to Kerala, India soon. I am looking specifically for heirloom eggplant varieties that have preferably been grown organically for generations and seeds have been saved. The older varieties of eggplant are pretty long (similar to Japanese eggplant but tends to be longer and thinner) and can be either purple, purplish-green or full green. One variety, known as Illikomban, is a long green eggplant. I am willing to travel to remote parts of Kerala and Tamil Nadu to find these varieties, as previously these varieties were grown widely in Sri Lanka, especially in the Jaffna peninsula. But now, all the eggplants here have been replaced with modern hybrids that are almost impossible to get decent yields from without chemical fertilisers and pesticides. If anyone can help me locate traditional vegetable varieties there, I would be very grateful. Thank you for your time!

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Hello everyone!
I am currently living in Sri Lanka.  I am Sri Lankan and American.  I used to live in South Florida (Davie/Cooper City area). I also spent time living in Hawaii for a short time (Honoka'a/Hilo).  During my whole life, I never used chemical fertilisers or pesticides whenever I would grow fruit and vegetables.  Everything has to be organic for me.  In Sri Lanka during the kingdom times, we used to produce all of our food commodities domestically and exported so much to other countries (including rice to China!).  Sri Lanka also used to have a higher population (80,000,000) rather than now 21,000,000.  Sri Lanka can definitely go back to organic over time.  There needs to be a plan!  In 2022, the president of Sri Lanka banned chemical fertilisers and pesticides in one shot and most of our large scale crops did horribly because the soils are so depleted.  My goal is to get Sri Lanka back to having nice black loams in many areas so we can do proper organic agriculture sustainably for generations!  While I was in Hawaii, I started a not-for-profit NGO called Thennai Humane Society.  We believe in enterprise fundraising, we don't need people's donations or charity.  We exchange money for products and services.  My organisation will first start off making organic soap using the materials we have here, and from other herbs and botanicals cultivated around our soap factory.  I am currently developing my website; https://thennai.net  8)
We will be using STRIPE on the website to accept payments.  It is currently still in the coming soon page, but the full website should be up soon...if anyone has more questions about what I am doing, please reach out!  You can reply to this thread, message me on here, or email me at thennaihumanesociety@icloud.com
Thank you so much for your time! :)

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