bangalore a weightreducing drink that controls cholesterol and diabetes and sets hormonal imbalances right no acidic content and synthetic additives like in pepsi and coke absolutely swadeshi and made of extracts from four herbs and a fruit the drink sounds idealin a few months a coorgbased company will be marketing this drink in a readytoserve form much like other cool drinks says ravindra shenoy he is managing director of the mysorebased swadeshi technology development and encouragement company ltd which has sold the technology of this health syrup to the coorg companyswadeshi turned four this year and the company claims they have sold over 500 technologies already involving purely agricultural organic products the company hopes to draw people back to their basics and tradition so that treatment and everyday products are nonsynthetic safe and inexpensive agriculture for everything food medicine industry health is shenoys mottofrom simple turmeric extract drops to cure throat infections to neembased coconut mite treatments and natural floorcleaning agents and organic fertilisers swadeshi has developed various technologies and productsour treatment centre in mysore treats cancer and aids and other ailments using only agro products claims shenoy who was in bangalore for a lecture at the institution of agricultural technologists they have developed algaebased treatments for human illnessesswadeshi has also worked on organic manures that use silica to produce pestresistance in crops manures that add vitamins and minerals in soluble form for plants to absorb treatments for snake bites natural colours fragrances and components for cosmetics methods to extract silica from paddy husk they have even set up a 45mw agrobased power plant in mandya district that runs on coconut shells paddy husk cane and other agricultural wasteour company does not own these technologies and we dont commercialise them we only do the research and sell the technology says shenoy the 10member company consists of biochemists plant pathologists microbiologists and ayurveda specialists they conduct training programmes for farmers on new crops they can grow provide consultation to industries on effluentfree production methods and are planning to set up a technology development centre in chamarajnagar