{"id":9450,"date":"2013-04-10T13:13:27","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T07:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=9450"},"modified":"2013-04-10T13:13:52","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T07:43:52","slug":"horticorps-mobile-outlets-vans-to-visit-residentsassociations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/horticorps-mobile-outlets-vans-to-visit-residentsassociations\/","title":{"rendered":"Horticorp&#8217;s Mobile outlets vans to visit residents\u2019 associations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tired of shopping for vegetables? Now you can get them at your doorstep. Recently, department of horticultural products development corporation (Horticorp) has rolled out a number of mobile vegetable units called the <strong>\u2018Haritha\u2019 mobile stalls<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Now Horticorp has asked residents\u2019 associations in the city whether they would like to have the mobile stalls stop by at prescribed hours. The mobile van of Horticorp reaches the resident association colony on a fixed time and day of every week.<\/p>\n<p>Vegetables procured directly from farmers are made available fresh to the people and are sold through the mobile units at prices 10-20% less than those in the open market.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Horticorp procures vegetables and fruits which are produced using very little chemical pesticides. Only those vegetables that cannot be produced in Kerala are being procured from neighbouring states.\u2019\u2019 Said K Prathapan Horticorp managing director in a statement. He also urged the public to make the best use of the facility.<\/p>\n<p>Horticorp initially launched the mobile stalls during the Onam season to combat the sudden hike in vegetable prices in the open market. \u00a0Horticorp agency had launched 2 outlets to begin with then, but was forced to add 2 larger vehicles following the huge response from the people. Horticorp had even come out with detailed schedules for the operations of its mobile outlets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tired of shopping for vegetables? Now you can get them at your doorstep. Recently, department of horticultural products development corporation (Horticorp) has rolled out a number of mobile vegetable units called the \u2018Haritha\u2019 mobile stalls. Now Horticorp has asked residents\u2019 associations in the city whether they would like to have the mobile stalls stop by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[452],"class_list":["post-9450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-trivandrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9450"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}