tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49080140401861432082024-03-17T20:03:00.544-07:00Garden and FarmsQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13870210563898467055noreply@blogger.comBlogger134125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4908014040186143208.post-4902183226455353932014-06-19T02:57:00.001-07:002014-06-19T02:58:42.860-07:00"Super" banana to face first human trial<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">SYDNEY: A super-enriched banana genetically engineered to improve the lives of millions of people in Africa will soon have its first human trial, which will test its effect on vitamin A levels, Australian researchers said Monday.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The project plans to have the special banana varieties -- enriched with alpha and beta carotene which the body converts to vitamin A -- growing in Uganda by 2020.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The bananas are now being sent to the United States, and it is expected that the six-week trial measuring how well they lift vitamin A levels in humans will begin soon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Good science can make a massive difference here by enriching staple crops such as Ugandan bananas with pro-vitamin A and providing poor and subsistence-farming populations with nutritionally rewarding food," said project leader Professor James Dale.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The <a href="https://www.qut.edu.au/">Queensland University of Technology (QUT)</a> project, backed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, hopes to see conclusive results by year end.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"We know our science will work," Professor Dale said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"We made all the constructs, the genes that went into bananas, and put them into bananas here at QUT."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dale said the Highland or East African cooking banana was a staple food in East Africa, but had low levels of micro-nutrients, particularly pro-vitamin A and iron.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The consequences of vitamin A deficiency are dire with 650,000-700,000 children world-wide dying ... each year and at least another 300,000 going blind," he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Researchers decided that enriching the staple food was the best way to help ease the problem.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While the modified banana looks the same on the outside, inside the flesh is more orange than a cream colour, but Dale said he did not expect this to be a problem.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He said once the genetically modified bananas were approved for commercial cultivation in Uganda, the same technology could potentially be expanded to crops in other countries -- including Rwanda, parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya and Tanzania.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"In West Africa farmers grow plantain bananas and the same technology could easily be transferred to that variety as well," he said.</span></div>
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Queue Farmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13180980660530117085noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4908014040186143208.post-36568118189523213372014-06-15T23:53:00.001-07:002014-06-15T23:53:25.567-07:00Living Lawn Mowers on Roof Garden<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For example, if it seems that your yard needs some more oomph or pizzazz, but you can’t quite put your green thumb on what would help, try looking up and consider growing more plants vertically. It’s a change of perspective that adds interest to your outdoor living space.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Climbing plants are somehow more welcoming, with their living beauty embracing you. In addition, if your yard space is limited, trellises and other support structures make the most of the space you have. Because vines grow upward, you don’t have to worry about them spreading. Also, you may be able to use previously unused areas to add color and interest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s wise to consider the structures you will use before buying plants. Metal, wood, plastic — what fits your garden’s style? What materials do you already have in fences, for example, that would harmonize with a new vine support? Supports can include arbors, trellises, tepees made of branches or bamboo, cages (tomato or bird), string, fences or a major structure such as a pergola.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While a rustic-looking trellis you make from the leftover trimmings from a tree will look charming in a casual garden, it might look out of place in a more formal garden or near a house of modern architecture. Use a design that goes well with its surroundings. Light-colored or white supports create a bold contrast to the mostly green plants that will grow on them. Brown and green structures blend more readily into their surroundings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Vines can hide or soften fences or other things you’d like to hide. The “cyclone fence” in my backyard looks ever so much better with grapes growing on it. A smaller, softer vine like a passionflower can do wonders to make a sturdy wooden fence seem less so. If you have a dead tree that it would be difficult to remove, plant something substantial-looking, such as a climbing hydrangea, near it. Screen the view of your compost pile, perhaps, or of your neighbor’s backyard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Consider scale when choosing a support, keeping in mind the plant with which you’d like to pair it. Some vines, such as wisteria or climbing roses, get thick and heavy and need some heft in their support, but a morning glory or moonflower would look out of place on a structure made of two by fours.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some ideas for vines you might try include morning glory, sweet peas, clematis, scarlet runner beans, sugar snap peas, hops, passionflower, climbing roses, jasmine, honeysuckle, grapes, climbing hydrangea, wisteria, trumpet vine, kiwi and moonflower. And I love my mandevilla on the arbor straddling a flagstone path, even if it takes extra care to keep it alive over the winter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Building a structure for a vining plant might be a good winter project. Next spring, as you install it before planting, be sure to set it securely, as this is something you want to get right the first time. Set it in the ground even deeper than you might think necessary. Large, heavy structures might need concrete footings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With some planning, a vertical garden is delightful — it may even become the focal point for your outdoor living area. With its beauty displayed right at eye level, it will be a feast for your senses.</span></div>
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Queue Farmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13180980660530117085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4908014040186143208.post-177407055453384702014-06-10T01:37:00.000-07:002014-06-14T01:44:00.474-07:00Caring for silkworms in summer<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Robust growth of silkworms and silk yield are directly influenced by the quality of mulberry leaves fed.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the same time, climatic condition also plays an equal role as the silkworms are sensitive to the temperature and other abiotic factors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Silkworms prefer cool climate with moderate humid condition. But in tropical zones, silk productivity is generally low in summer season mainly due to hike in temperature, fall of humidity and other factors like water scarcity, pests in mulberry garden and outbreak of diseases.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Many farmers partially irrigate mulberry gardens in summer due to water scarcity which yields leaves with poor moisture content. Feeding such leaves results in adverse effect on growth of silkworms and their immunity. Therefore farmers often face crop failure in summer because of disease outbreak.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Earmark mulberry gardens for silkworm rearing according to the availability of water to ensure sufficient irrigation. The leftover gardens can be kept idle without pruning of plants till monsoon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Drip irrigation helps save water. Black polythene mulching in mulberry garden conserves soil moisture for long time besides controlling weeds and enhances mulberry leaf yield and quality.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The fruit is picked before maturity to preserve its acidity. Most of the species under the genus lemon are native to tropical and sub–tropical regions of southeast Asia, particularly, India, China.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lemon juice is valued in the home as a stain remover, and a slice of lemon dipped in salt can be used to clean copper-bottomed cooking pots. Lemon juice has been used for bleaching freckles and facial cleansing creams. Lemon peel oil is much used in furniture polishes, detergents, soaps, and shampoos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This citrus fruit ranks very high in its medicinal value, having many therapeutical uses. Lemon juice is a natural antiseptic which may be safely applied directly to cuts, bruises and infections. Lemon juice is good for asthma, headaches, pneumonia, and arthritis. It is a good general blood and body purifier and a mild diuretic. It is important in perfume blending and especially in colognes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lemon is grown in both dry and humid atmospheres, the latter being a disadvantage mainly in the processes of curing and storing. The lemon tree has the reputation of tolerating very infertile, very poor soil.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Recommended soils are sand, clay and sandy–clay–deep, with high permeability and good drainage. Black soils are also suitable if not lying over calcareous sub-soil. Ph should be between 5.5 and 6.5. If acidity is high, it is necessary to apply lime to achieve the optimum level.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Usually, lemon is planted in pits of 50 x 50 x 50cm or of 75 x 75 x 75cm sizes in square system with spacing of 5 to 8 m depending upon the species and rootstocks. For rough lemons or karana khatta wider spacing of 5 x 5 m is adequate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Though the planting is usually done during the monsoon season, it is better not to plant at the time of heavy rains to avoid any water logging near the planting pits. Weather should not be too wet or too dry at the time of planting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The rough lemon is widely grown from seed. The ‘Meyer’ lemon is easily reproduced by rooting large cuttings in the nursery and planting them directly in the grove. They fruit two to three years sooner than budded trees and have a long life, remaining in full production for over 30 years, perhaps much longer. In case of lemons, cutting and layering (air layering) are commonly employed and plants thus raised develop shallow but good root system.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Remove congested growth in early spring, and pinch out shoot growing tips in summer. If renovation is required prune back by two-thirds in early spring. Pruning lemon trees should be confined to trimming extremely long branches that become untidy or new branches that cross over others, they do not require any special pruning to encourage flowers as these will be produced naturally shoot tips and wood old enough to bear them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Irrigation is of vital importance to lemon orchard and it is considered as one of the most critical culture operations. About the method of irrigation, suggested that young trees up to eight years may be profitably irrigated by basin system. Other irrigation methods applied are flood, furrow, sprinkler methods.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The application of irrigation in right time and in right quantity is more important than the method of irrigation. Usually, under local condition weekly irrigation during March to June and fortnightly irrigation during November to February are practiced.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For sustained production and to maintain proper orchard health it is essential to apply manures and fertilisers to lemon orchard regularly. For non–bearing tree, fertiliser application may be done in an area more than drip circle, leaving 15 -30 cm radius around the tree trunk.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The marketability of lemons depends on the stage at which they are picked. Lemons were allowed to remain on the trees until they became too large. It was realised that early picking is necessary.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some growers adopted the practices of picking at any time after the fruits reach 25 per cent juice content, and using rings to gauge the commercially acceptable size, and repeated spot-picking with clippers. Mechanical picking is impossible with lemons. The fruits are highly prone to oil spotting (oleocellosis) and cannot handle roughly nor picked wet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In Pakistan, a 6-year-old tree bore 966 fruits and at 9 years of age, had produced a total of 3,173 fruits.</span></div>
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Queue Farmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13180980660530117085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4908014040186143208.post-3605591489183833392014-06-01T23:23:00.001-07:002014-06-01T23:23:43.545-07:00Importance of Honeybee in Our Food Supply<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>To fulfill the food demand for growing population, we have to find out different ways of food production. The rabbit known as "Micro-Livestock" can be a great source of food production. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is a great opportunity of rabbit farming in our country. Rabbit needs small place and less food for survival. Rabbit meat contains high ratio of protein, energy, calcium and vitamin than other species of animal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The cholesterol fat and sodium is less than other meat. The meat of rabbit is very testy, easily consumed and all religious people can eat it. They grows very fast and the female rabbit produce 2-8 baby every time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They eat very low quality food and make high quality of meat. Raising rabbit can be a great income source to the unemployed people and landless farmers. So, we have to raise rabbit to meet the demand of protein as well as to reduce poverty from our society.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We generally raise rabbit as pet. But if we raise them commercially then it will be a great source of income and a smart way of employment. The annual demand of meat in our country is about six million tons. But only one million tons of meat produced in our country, rest of the meat we import from foreign country.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to the demand only 15-20 percent of animal protein comes from the livestock which is very less compared to the requirement. Further, this demand is increasing with population growth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An adult person needs 120 grams of meat daily. But we get only 20 grams on an average. So, we can consider rabbit farming as a potential direction of animal protein. It is very easy to maintain rabbit farm than other animals. Every person of the family can take care of it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are many species of rabbit are available in our country. Among those Dark Gray (internal), Fox, Dutch, New Zealand White, New Zealand Black, New Zealand Red, Belgium White and Chinchilla are most favorite.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In many research it has found that, young rabbit meat is very high quality than the adult rabbit meat. And the meat quality of male rabbit is high than female rabbit meat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The quantity of cholesterol and lipids increases and reduces protein with the increase of the rabbit age. On the other hand, female rabbit meat contains more lipid, fat and cholesterol.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are many benefits of farming rabbit. The main benefits of raising rabbit according to our country economic and ecological condition are described bellow.</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One female rabbit can give birth 2-8 baby rabbit at a time.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rabbit can be raised in a short place.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">More production can be made in little cost.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rabbit meat is very nutritious.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In meat production it has a place after poultry.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wast material of the kitchen, grass, plant leaves etc. are favorite food of rabbit. So, we can raise them using this commodities.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This method is suitable for less amount of rabbit. The floor should well made concrete. 4-5 inches depth litter should make with husk, rice straw or wood lath. In this method at most 30 rabbit can be raised. The male rabbit should keep in a separate room from the female. In this method the possibilities of being affected by diseases is high. Moreover, it is very difficult to manage the rabbit in this system.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To keep rabbit commercially this method is the best. In this system the rabbit are kept in a cage made with iron plate. This cage is very useful for raising more rabbit. In every cage it have to have the facilities of necessary space. Male and female rabbit should keep separate from each other. They should keep in same rood when thy need mating to produce baby rabbit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Food consuming rate and nutrient requirements varies according to the rabbit age and species. For proper nutrition of an adult rabbit its food should contain 17-18 percent crude protein, 14 percent fiber, 7 percent minerals and 2700 kilo calorie/kg of metabolic energy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Green leafy vegetables, seasonal vegetable, spinach greens, carrots, Muller, cucumber, green grass and vegetable wast can easily used as the food of rabbit. For commercial purpose poultry food can be served to feed the rabbit. Accordance with proper food management they should supply sufficient water according to their demand. Thus a farmer can be success in rabbit farming. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The volume of water required for each sample was assigned a rating in Scoville units—the larger the number, the more water needed and the hotter the pepper. A high-pressure liquid chromatography test replaced this technique in the early 1980s, but the measurements are still expressed in Scoville units. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The following peppers are listed from most hot to least hot, according to Scoville units.</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Caribbean Red_______________________100,000–445,000</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jamaican Hot_________________________100,000–200,000</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chiltepini______________________________50,000–100,000</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cayenne_______________________________50,000–70,000</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Piquin_________________________________30,000–50,000</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thai Dragon____________________________35,000–45,000</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">De Arbol_______________________________15,000–30,000</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Serrano_________________________________5,000–23,000</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yellow Wax______________________________5,000–15,000</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jalapeño_________________________________2,500–5,000</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ancho___________________________________1,000–1,500</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The guar gum, also called guaran, is extracted from the seed of the leguminous shrub Cyamopsis tetragonolobus (Leguminosae), which is grown in arid and semi-arid regions of Sindh and Punjab. It is termed as the best substitute for locust bean gums. Manufacturing of gum from its beans gives such astonishing results that it is considered 'white gold'. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The guar is dicotyledonous (oval-shaped) seed having a diameter of about 8mm. Galactomanan is the essential ingredient of guar that gives it unique thickening, binding and stabilising properties. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In order to obtain pure galactomanan, the endosperm is separated from the hull and germ. The relative composition of a guar seed comprises 14-17 per cent hull, 43-47 per cent germ and 34-36 per cent endosperm. The production process is optimised to extract maximum levels of galactomanan from seeds of differing content by using a multi-stage grinding and sifting process. Guar is used as cattle feed and green manure and can be eaten as a green bean. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Guar plant grows well under a wide range of soil conditions. It thrives best in fertile, medium textured and sandy loam soils, with good structure and well-drained subsoil. Under irrigated condition it should be sown from April to July but in rain-fed regions sowing should be completed before monsoon. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The plant cannot stand water-logging conditions, although it is considered to be tolerant to both soil salinity and alkalinity. The crop tolerates high temperatures and dry conditions, and is adapted to arid and semi-arid climates. Ideally, guar requires two showers before sowing, one spell during budding and another one at the time of blossoming. Too much of precipitation can lead to vigorous vegetative growth, reducing the number of pods and/ or the number of seeds per pod, affecting the size and yield of seeds. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Guar is a photo-sensitive crop and it flowers and matures when sown in the kharif season. On maturity, the seedpods are brown and dry, and seed moisture content is less than 14 per cent. During harvesting, small plants are either uprooted or cut from the stem and kept in the open for drying. Seeds are taken out of the beans, either mechanically or manually at the farm level, so that they do not shatter. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The properties of guar powder, which make it useful in various applications, include its easy solubility in cold and hot water, film forming ability, resistance to oils, greases and solvents, good thickening agent, water binding capacity, high viscosity and functioning at low temperatures. Given the versatility in its use for food, feed and industrial applications, guar and its derivatives attract good demand from the industrial/food-processing sector. It is a useful fodder crop and as a leguminous plant it also adds nitrogen to the soil, thereby enriching soil quality. Crop residues (stubble and header trash) are a source of valuable, high protein animal feed. The crop can also be used to produce high quality hay. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Meet the ‘President’.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The giant sequoia tree in Nevada’s Sequoia National Park is 3,200 years old, has 2 billion leaves and stands 247 feet (74 metres) tall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The portrait of the giant tree, taken by National Geographic, is actually a mosaic, made up of 126 photographs in order to capture the stunning full-length shot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The President is by no means the tallest tree in the world – that honour goes to a California redwood, which stands 379 feet (116 metres) tall – but in terms of mass, it is one of the largest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The stunning shot of the tree was featured as a five page fold-out in the December 2012 edition of National Geographic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">‘The reason we want to do these portraits – people get it. When they see the tree in its totality without distortion, they gasp,’ said photographer Michael Nichols.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The photographic team captured the pictures using an innovative rigging technique, which was pioneered by Mr Nichols in 2009, when created an 84-image composite of a 300-foot-tall redwood tree.</span></div>
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Queue Farmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13180980660530117085noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4908014040186143208.post-24799219916158633582014-05-19T06:59:00.000-07:002014-05-19T06:59:01.375-07:00A Very Beautiful Goat Cart<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Queue Farmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13180980660530117085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4908014040186143208.post-46200221929714936042014-04-27T22:54:00.003-07:002014-04-27T22:57:11.816-07:00Camel milk: a miracle cure for children with autism?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Two American mothers who sourced camel milk from the Middle East say it definitely can, citing circumstantial evidence of their children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) responding positively after therapy that included camel milk.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Author Christina Adams shared her camel milk story with XPRESS following a meet-up organised by Autism UAE, Stepping Stones, Child EIMC and Emirates Industry for Camel Milk and Products (EICMP) at The Majlis Dubai, a new camel milk cafe next to Jumeirah Mosque.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“My son,” said Adams, “was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) at three years of age. He suffered loss of language at 15 to 18 months, hyperactivity, sensitivity to noise and fixation on objects and water. He had difficulty interacting with others, while biting and engaging in aggressive behaviour which led to dismissal from two pre-schools.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 2005, when her son Jonah was seven, Adams published A Real Boy: A True story of Autism, Early Intervention and Recovery in which she outlined a mother’s challenge in dealing with the lifelong disorder. The book got rave reviews on Amazon.com.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“The camel man told me a story about how camel milk was used to help premature babies in the Middle East and was thought to be non-allergenic. That triggered two thoughts in my mind: one, that it may help my son be healthier and, two, it’s a good milk substitute.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Adams spent the next two years studying about camel milk, talking to experts and potential sources. A Pakistani-American friend then offered to get her camel milk from Palestine, but the shipment was confiscated at JFK Airport as she did not have import permits.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 2006, she came across a paper a veterinarian had written about how camel milk eased symptoms of autism. That fired Adams up: Desperate to get her hands on raw frozen camel milk, she finally obtained a permit after securing a doctor’s prescription. “I was the first person in the US to get an import permit for camel milk for medical purposes,” she said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“The rest,” she said, “is history… the morning after my son ingested camel milk, he demonstrated astonishing improvement in behaviour including eye contact, communication, emotional expression (“I really love you”; “You do so much for me”) and self-organisation.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Adams wrote a patient report Autism Disorder Treated with Camel Milk detailing her experience published in the November 2013 issue of Global Advances in Health and Medicine, a peer-reviewed US medical journal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lat week Adams was in Dubai for the first time to share her experience about the therapeutic effects camel milk had on her son, who is now 16, at the autism group meet-up.</span></div>
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