HYDERABAD: People can now buy pure honey extracted by Chenchus, a Scheduled Tribes (ST) community, on e-commerce platform Flipkart and supermarket chain Q-Mart.
Four types of forest honey — mango, neem, sesame and Palakodisa — are being marketed by the Telangana State Girijan Co-operative Corporation Ltd (GCC) under the brand name ‘Giri Nature.’ State Tribal Welfare Commissioner Christina Z Chongthu presented the first samples of the honey varieties to Chief Secretary to the Telangana government Somesh Kumar at his office on Saturday.