With Strawberries from Bhagalpur…   Bhagalpur: according to reports, quite incredibly, strawberry cultivation is making news in Bihar! ‘Strawberries, like grapes or potatoes, were originally temperate zone crops. But we now have varieties that can grow in the plains,” said Harishchandra Singh, the deputy director-general of horticulture of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), New Delhi. “We have grapes in Maharashtra and potato in Tamil Nadu —- so why not strawberry in Haryana or Bihar?” said Singh, who had during the early-1980s demonstrated the production of...