On a recent afternoon, the monks and nuns rolled hundreds of vegetable egg rolls.
In Agra, she will visit the headquarters of the Self-Employed Women's Assn., whose founder, Ela Bhatt, has organized thousands of illiterate women vegetable vendors, quilt makers and trash pickers into powerful trade unions.
They are the principal pollinators of hundreds of fruits, vegetables, flowers and nuts.
Africa has hundreds of indigenous vegetables, which have been grown, gathered and eaten for centuries.
In regions with suitable climates, hundreds of different vegetables, fruits, herbs and salad leaves can be grown on rooftops.
During the 20th century, the production of vegetable oils has grown to more than 100 billion pounds annually.
Most tourists can only be catered for by bringing in thousands of tonnes of meat, vegetables and diesel oil every year.
This could in turn lead to the loss of thousands of varieties of fruits, vegetables and cereals unless the technology was properly regulated.
Take our natural food sources such as the banana, the wild pomegranate, and tens of thousands of other herbs, fruits, vegetables, bryophytes (like moss) and flowering plants - an alarming number of the projected 380,000 plant species that still remain in the wild.
