panaji the state government is set to promote goas heritage drink feni at a threeday festival at colva the government has invited bidders to organise the festivalthe state intends to creatively present and market the drink to tourists and leverage it for tourism due to its geographical indicator gi statusthe festival will promote the concept of farm and agrotourism along with rich goan heritage and demonstrate to tourists the potential of goas smallscale industry which uses waste from the forest to create household ingredients and items for daily use right from crafts artifacts musical instruments and food preparations especially traditional goan curries and sweets a senior official saidthe festival thus is aimed at marketing goas distinctive crops to tourists and use the benefits of tourism to enable backend integration with the agrarian economy of the state with the purpose of enabling trickledown benefits to farmersa senior official said that goa tourism will demonstrate the distillation process then and now and explain the potency of the drink in various forms through the distillation process the official said that the festival will present the stomping method used in the olden days to extract juice as also the modern methods it will also present various ways to consume the beveragethe cashew was introduced to india by the portuguese between 1563 and 1570 an official said the portuguese brought the cashew first to goa and then spread it across the western region of india and then southeast asia