We all love rains but like all good things, rain too has its downside. Monsoon often brings along illness, that's why it is infamously known as the flu season. So, before you fall into it and get sick, learn that prevention is truly better than cure. Another thing that's better? …
At its request, Spices Board was permitted to undertake development of vanilla and is engaged in this endeavour to add another item to the spice export basket. It has only few exclusive vanilla related programmes and they are supply of subsidized planting materials and on farm curing aids.
Having known the export potential of vanilla Spices Board during IX plan took up a programme to popularize the crop in Kerala and Karnataka. As a result by the end of the plan period about 320 hectares were brought under cultivation. The programme was extended with a targeted area of …
curcumin, commonly known as haldi in India, helps reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease, a brain disorder that results in memory loss, personality changes and a decline in the thinking ability. These adverse impacts, scientists believe, are related to the death of brain cells and a breakdown of connections between …
with a view to weeding out adulteration from the saffron industry of Jammu and Kashmir (j&k;), local experts have proposed the registration of the product under geographical indication (gi) in a manner similar to Basmati rice. They have also suggested that a single brand of Kashmiri saffron be floated. Nowadays, …
The Dutch East India Company was formed c 1602. As the Dutch Armada set sail for the East Indies from Amsterdam, surgeons and apothecaries on the fleet were instructed by the great European renaissance botanist Carolus Clusius "to bring, laid between paper, branchless carrying leaves and fruits' foremost of commercially …
a commonly used spice might be the wonder cure for ringworm infection. Researchers from the University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, have found that oil made of Trachyspermum ammi (ajwain) can effectively cure ringworm infections. Ringworm is a common fungal skin infection characterised by scaly, itchy lesions on the skin and scalp. …
indian exporters of chilli products are smarting. The eu has all but shut the door on them after recently detecting the presence of Sudan red 1, a carcinogenic industrial dye, in one of their consignments to France. And the Spices Board of India has cracked the whip on the three …
new mummies: Ancient Britons started mummifying their dead at the same time as the Egyptians. British archaeologist Mike Parker-Pearson has found four Bronze Age bodies showing signs of mummification in the remote Scottish isle of South Uist. The 3,000-year-old bodies are believed to be the first ever discovery of mummification …
This article focuses on the analysis of orgnohlorine pesticides (OCP) residues in commonly used spices like cumin (Cuminum cyminum), chili (Capsicurn frutescens ), city ginger. The use of OCPs in developing countries has been of serious concern because of their persistent nature. Results have shown that the level of HCH …
Nineteen soil profiles representing seven soil series with sixteen mapping units were collected, described and mapped at Indian Institute of Spices Research, Cardamom Research Centre, Appangala, Madikeri, Karnataka for evaluating their suitability for cardamom cultivation. Soil and site properties such as climate, depth and the soils were assessed for growing …
A medicine to delay the onset of diabetes may be hiding in your kitchen. Researchers at the US Agricultural Research Service in Maryland, have found that cinnamon can help patients with type II or non-insulin-dependant diabetes. In these patients, fat and muscle cells gradually lose their ability to respond to …
indian researchers have recently claimed that the world's hottest variety of chillies, grows in the northeastern hills of Assam and not on the farms of Mexico. "Tests by a team of experts here have confirmed that Naga Jolokia ( Capsicum frutescens ), a speciality from the Northeast, is the world's …
The Department of Farm Machinery, College of Agricultural Engineering, Tamil Nadu Agriculture University, Coimbatore has developed a power tiller turmeric harvester. The harvester consists of a crescent-shaped blade with three bar-points meant to penetrate the soil. Two oscillating sectors at the rear of the blade have 50 cm long lift …
it is indeed a shame that a country like India, with its vast indigenous and traditional knowledge base, should be a helplessly bystander as the patenting of many of its traditional systems goes on with unfailing regularity. A few are challenged but by and large patents in this field go …
The University of Agricultural Sciences in Dharwad, Karnataka, has developed two chilli varieties, GPC-82 and KDC-1. The GPC-82 is tolerant to thrips and mites and can yield 15 tonnes of green chilli per hectare. The KDC-1 can tolerate leaf curl complex and can give an average yield of tonnes per …
MANY plant species the world over are on the verge of extinction. And the rate of extinction of species in India is perhaps the highest in the world. About 150 species, which were collected a 100 years ago, have not been spotted in the recent past. Around 600 to 700 …
The Kerala High Court, has directed the state government not to further lease out reserve forest lands for cardamom cultivation in Idukki district. Justice K A Abdul Gafoor issued the interim direction on the writ petition filed by the Forum for Legal Research and Social Development Studies, Thripunithura. The Forum …
