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Basic food items like rice, fish, fruits, vegetables, sweetmeats, etc. are adulterated with hazardous chemicals like calcium carbide, oxytocin, ethephon, formalin, coating materials and different additives in an indiscriminate manner in Bangladesh. Food adulteration with poisonous chemicals has reached a dangerous proportion posing serious health hazards in the country people. Chemicals residues in food items leave the worst impact on children's mental and physical growth and women's fertility besides it causes cancer, and damage vital human organs like skin, eye, liver, kidney, lungs and heart. Some fruit items like guava, lemon, hog-plum etc.   and some fish items like koi, magur, shing, pangas etc. are however still free from chemical aggression.  Read the full content, (1) For pdf click here  and (2) For ppt click here NB: Primarily based on south asian countries and all information collected from different sources.

A very brief visit in Jeju Island, South Korea.

We had learned the traditional celebration of New year (2015) in Japan. I had enjoyed a lot on the New Year celebration on Tojo Sensei�s house, Kochi-Ken, Japan.  Miki Tojo (Sensei) There was some interesting part of celebration that we had learned that why every Japanese people decorated their house gate by special art.   We had also informed that the counting the age which was related to the animals. That seems to be interesting. Preparation of Japanese food: A new learning Japanese God Writing in Kanji First time I had written in Japanese Language (Kanji). I thought this was the most interesting part of the celebration. I had written the New Year in Kanji. I have attached some photos of that calligraphy. How to pray to the god at 1 st day of a year? Enjoying traditional Japanese food Playing game We enjoyed the playing cards. The winner of the game has got prize that was also interesting. Finally we enjoyed a lot and learn some traditional Japanese culture. I was really ha...

Photo Source: UOX  Roles of some plant hormones Hormone Role Auxins preclusion of abscission enhance or improve the fruit development vascular tissue differentiation control the cellular elongation involved in apical dominance and various tropisms stimulate of ethylene release  Cytokinins affect cell division delay senescence activate dormant buds Gibberellins Initiate mobilization of storage materials in seeds during germination stem elongation stimulate bolting in biennials stimulate pollen tube growth Abscisic Acid (ABA)   maintains dormancy in seeds and buds stimulates the closing of stomata Ethylene ripening of climacteric fruits promotion of the abscission aerenchyma tissue (in submerged stems) formation  determines sex in cucurbits Jasmonates response to environmental stresses control seed germination Brassinolides promote elongation and cell division stimulate flowering  affect tropic curvature Salic...

Do you ever found bundled and hawked young shoots and leaves of hostas as fresh produce? Bundled hosta leaves It is often found in some prefectures of Japan. It has been used as a food source, and are most commonly consumed in Japan also in Korea.  H. montana   and  H. sieboldii  are commonly used by Japanese for the nutritional value. Click here for more about the macro- and micro mineral content of hostas  In Japan, it is sold as Urui. In fact, not only the leaves but the shoots and flowers are also edible. They can be eaten raw or cooked (boiled). say yes to hostas in your diet More