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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

Migrant workers harvest corn on Uesugi Farms in Gilroy, California (2013). U.S. Department of Agriculture  At Food Politics, Marion Nestle shares an interview with Tom Nassif , the CEO of the Western Growers. �Nassif represents this trade association for industrial agricultural producers in the West and Southwest. He discusses how immigration issues affect farm labor from the perspective of producers.� The entire interview is worth reading, but I want to highlight the following two questions and answers, commenting�by way of the work of Frank Bardacke�on the second one below:   1. Some people say farmers just have to pay more for their labor . �Anyone who is an enlightened observer of immigration reform and agriculture knows that�s not true. Wages have continually gone up. And the supply of labor keeps diminishing. � It�s not the wages, it�s the work. This is a difficult job. This is seasonal. This is migratory. This is not full time. This requires people to be away from their...

Common statistically significant levels are 5%, 1% and 0.1% depending on the analysis Statistically significant results  are required for many practical cases of  experimentation  in various branches of research.  The concept of statistical significance can be understood by minimum level at which the null hypothesis can be rejected. This means if the researcher sets the statistical significance level at 5% and the probability that the results are a chance process is 3%, and then the researcher can claim that the null hypothesis can be rejected. In this case, the researcher will call his results to be statistically significant. Lower the significance level, higher the confidence.  The choice of the statistical significance level is influenced by a number of parameters and changes with different experiments.  In most cases of practical consideration, the distribution of parameters or qualities follows a normal distribution. However, care should always be t...