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Shaji N M, a farmer fromWayanad, who took up farming tuber crops as a solution to fight lifestyle diseases and POVERTY, has won the prestigious India Award (conservation of domesticated species individual), on theInternational Day for Biological Diversity. The India Biodiversity Awards was founded in 2012 jointly by the ministry of Environment, forest and