Featured Articles 2 | Project Mahua

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A couple processing Goan feni. Urban market growing for such traditional beverages. Will it benefit the local producers?

Companies are Rebranding Indigenous Liquors Like Mahua Into Desi Cocktails. Who Stands To Gain?

Villagers riding bikes, venture to the forests to collect various NTFP, including Mahua, in Central India

Mahua: India’s Most Intoxicating Tree Attracts Man And Animal

mahua liquor distillation in progress - 3 pots stacked in a column, a pipe from the middle one entering a 4th pot in front

Mahua: The Indian liquor the British banned

- Sugato Mukherjee

Mahua petals fall naturally, leaving pistil, calyx, and pedicel intact for fruiting — forming a floral shape in bunches

The drink of India’s Indigenous people gets a modern twist

- Sushmita Pathak

Moving beyond traditional liquor brewing, Adivasi women are making mahua laddus, selling well with the help of Forest dept

No more liquor, tribal women (Madhya Pradesh) switch to mahua ladoos to double their income

Communities reworking traditional mahua recipes as laddu, achaar etc. geographical indication (GI) can hike economic benefit

Mahua and its products need GI recognition

- Abhijit Dey & Akriti

Traditional mahua flower harvesting by tribal communities in central Indian forests

Explained: How India's Country Liquor 'Mahua' Is Still Policed Through Excise Laws

Mahua tree (Madhuca longifolia) in dry tropical forests. Bats pollinate its flowers, disperse seeds.

Heaven is where there are Mahua trees – and their bat friends

- Bhanu Sridharan

Mahua flowers – a sacred & edible bloom valued in Adivasi culture as traditional drink, now in use to produce heritage liquor

Mahua liquor is witnessing a rebrand, but legal framework protecting tribal rights across India is needed

Under the tree canopy, tribal women collecting mahua flowers-an important livelihood bears mark of deep indigenous knowledge

Tradition, Oppression and Resilience is in Every Pour of this Indian Spirit

- Amrita Amesur

Mahua flowers blossom in March-April. To produce food products, flowers are collected using nets, not picked up from ground

Desi daru, Inglis name

- Phorum Pandya

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