December 24, 2015 / como / 0 Comments
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December 20, 2015 / como / 0 Comments
Today we are facing environmental catastrophe unknown to our grandparents or great grandparents. People have not been more concerned about environmental effects in our known human history. And if we were to ask, to what do we owe this great rise in consciousness, we will have to look at our own actions and how they have damaged the earth.
Had it not been so greatly threatening to the survival of humankind, it would have provided amusement that the human species, always bragging about its own superiority over other animals, has destroyed their own habitat doing what they called manifestations of their superior intellect. In reality, they failed to understand the limitations of their knowledge. They failed to anticipate the consequences of their action. They failed to act responsibly towards the environment and even their own species, many of whom are living, even with an abundance of total production, without the bare necessities.
Let us look at agriculture and how human superiority complex worked to establish damaging agricultural practices. The world needs food, we are told. We were fed with the now debunked Malthusian theory that there were too many people to feed. And even though grains are stored, hoarded or simply dumped in the ocean, we were fixated with improving productivity, which led us to modern agriculture, when the distribution issue remained unfixed, as it still does.
Modern agriculture brought us high yield seeds, genetically modified. But not just high yields, these seeds which we have to buy from multinational giants have other conditions attached to them. These seeds need a controlled environment. An unexpected rain or drought can ruin the whole harvest. So at all points, farmers stand to lose a lot. Also, because extreme control is needed, water supply to the fields too needs to be controlled well and so such crops need a strong irrigation system. So dams are erected, which cause severe damage to the biodiversity of a region. Then such seeds are often genetically modified to be sterile, which does not allow a farmer to use the seeds from the yield for further cultivation and the pollen from such seeds, when it pollinates with plants of the same species, causes sterility in the offspring seeds as well. So this is a threat against which a farmer could resort to a seed bank for preservation of varieties which may soon be lost thanks to the assault from the multinationals on the grains.
There is more than one reason for preserving heirloom seeds against genetically modified seeds. An Heirloom seed is the result of generations of cultivation of farmers. Farmers have chosen the best varieties, interbred the varieties to produce a superior variety and cultivated them, and the genetic makeup of these seeds have survived long in this environment without causing damage to it. So there is an absolute necessity to preserve heirloom seed which may soon be lost. Growing your own food is a good decision that will keep you healthy and boost your confidence. With a seed kit you too can now grow your own food, eat healthy and also do a favor to the environment.
December 16, 2015 / como / 0 Comments
Aryavart Gramin Bank, a Regional Rural Bank, was constituted on 3rd October 2006 after amalgamation …
Aryavart Gramin Bank, a Regional Rural Bank, was constituted on 3rd October 2006 after amalgamation of three Regional Rural Banks (RRBs) namely Avadh Gramin Bank, Barabanki Gramin Bank and Farrukhabad Gramin Bank as per Government of India notification no. F.No.1/4/2006-RRB dated 03-10-2006.
The Aryavart Gramin Bank, henceforth mentioned as the Bank, has 306 branches, six Regional Offices and a Head Office. The bank offers home loan, personal loan, agricultural loan, educational loan etc in order facilitate the customers in rural and semi urban areas.
Purpose- Financial assistance for setting up Agri Clinic and Agri Business centers for providing expert advice for better cropping practices, protection from pests and diseases, market trend and also clinical services for animal health.
Eligibility- Agriculture graduates or graduates in subject allied to agriculture, like veterinary, dairy, etc.
Amount 0f Loan -Rs.10 Lac
Quantum Of Loan- As per project cost.
Margin- No Margin up to Rs.5 Lakh, 25% above Rs.5 Lakh
Subsidy- 25% to 33.33% on capital investment (back ended), interest subsidy for two years
Rate of Interest- 12.50% per annum
Repayment- 5 to 10 years including moratorium period of maximum 2 years
December 15, 2015 / como / 0 Comments
Magnesium deficiency may bring about ADD and ADHDsymptoms. The reasons for this involve understanding what Magnesium is and how it works in our bodies.
Magnesium is a mineral. It is the 4th most abundant element in your body. ADHD studies have shown that Inadequacies in magnesium can bring on a host of problems and symptoms are among the symptoms that have been linked to nutritional Inadequacies of this mineral.
The majority of teen age children in this country have, according to Scientific studies performed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Unites State Department of Agriculture, significant magnesium Inadequacies.
Magnesium is necessary for hundreds of chemical reactions in the body. Our muscle and nerve function depends on magnesium as do our skeletal system and our immune system. Magnesium is needed to maintain normal blood sugar levels and a normal blood pressure. Perhaps the most significant role that magnesium plays is in protein synthesis and energy metabolism.
Magnesium works with calcium to power the cells in our body but according to the 2006 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) and published in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, What We Eat in America, 2006-2007 Report, most of our kids have magnesium Inadequacies. Many younger young kids and adults do as well but the statistics are most alarming for teens. Eighty-nine percent of boys and seventy percent of girls aged 14-18 have inadequate dietary intake of Magnesium.
Research Studies have found that magnesium can be used to improve a host of conditions including anxiety and depression. There is some scientific evidence that magnesium may be able to regulate neurotransmitter function. Deficiencies in magnesium, which can caused by excess perspiration or by decreased diet intake will worsen these conditions.
These Inadequacies may result in faulty neurotransmission as well as anxiety, depression, migraine headaches, mood disorders, hyperactivity and decreased concentration. Low magnesium has also been linked to sudden cardiac death, mitral valve prolapsed, diabetes and hypertension.
Several Research Studies have shown that supplementation with 80 mg to 200 mg of magnesium daily improves anxiety, depression and ADD and ADHD symptoms.
Most multivitamins have between 20mg to 50 mg of magnesium. This may be plenty of supplementation if you, or your children, are eating foods that are rich in magnesium such as green leafy vegetables, lot of whole grains, walnuts, cashews, and peanuts, beans, fish, pumpkin, bananas, avocados, raisins, milk products and tomato paste but is likely not enough if you are not and if this is the case then supplementation is required.
Magnesium is an essential nutritional element that may be deficient in the diet of most Americans. High schoolers in particular, are likely to have magnesium Inadequacies. Magnesium is lost through respiration and sweating and active people are more at risk for having borderline low magnesium levels than people who are sedentary. Eating foods high in magnesium or supplementing your diet with a magnesium vitamin is essential to avoid the poor health outcomes that result from low magnesium levels.
Check your multivitamin to insure that you and your children are getting enough magnesium. Those of us, who like hot chocolate and coffee, have yet another reason to drink more of these beverages. It turns out that cocoa and caffeine both contain a fair amount of magnesium. Some of the mood lifting effects of chocolate and coffee could be attributed to these magnesium levels.
The Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disordercommunity has been quick to recommend fatty acid supplementation to improve the behavioral symptoms that bring on problems in people with Attention Deficit Disorder. The research community is only now learning that nutritional substances such as calcium, magnesium and zinc also play a role in moderating our mood and our behavior.
By supplementing our diets with magnesium we may avoid worsening the symptoms of ADHD and may, in the process not only improve our overall health but also diminish the incidence of developing conditions such as depression and anxiety that often accompany a diagnosis of ADHD.
December 11, 2015 / como / 0 Comments
According to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation global food prices have risen by an average of 83% overall in the last decade.
That’s just one statistic from this week’s crop of news reports on climate change, global warming and food production.
Here’s another: global greenhouse gas emissions since the 1850s would have been a third greater without the 1960s Green Revolution, according to the researchers in the US.
Neither of these findings is likely to bring much comfort to the millions of people currently struggling with the effects of this year’s unprecedented rainfall in Pakistan and China, which has displaced at least 20 million people in the two countries, flooded out of their homes, their work and all they own, including crops, seeds and livestock.
Nor will it be of comfort to the Russians, facing their hottest ever summer, with wild fires circling Moscow and risking the loss of at least a third, possibly more, of the country’s wheat crop – due for harvest in September and October but already triggering price speculation on the commodities markets because Russia is the world’s third largest supplier of wheat.
In addition 16 countries have recorded record temperatures this year (2010) and there are severe droughts, leading to starvation in Niger and parts of the Sahel region of Africa.
At the same time US researchers have also found that rice yields are declining in the six main Asian rice producing countries, which they ascribe to global warming and the resulting rise in night-time temperatures. Yields have dropped between 10% and 20% over the last 25 years in some places.
In the face of all this it is hard to tolerate the persistent wrangling between countries in the ongoing discussions ahead of the next meeting in Cancun, Mexico, due in November. Following the disappointing outcome of the last summit in Copenhagen, it’s now being said that the talks have in fact gone backwards.
Even without the mounting evidence of the devastating effects of climate change on weather patterns, and by extension agricultural production, a vast increase in food production is going to be needed to supply the projected global population growth and make some inroads into the scandal that a billion people on the planet are malnourished if not starving.
So what happened in the last “green” revolution and what chance is there of another one?
The 1960s green revolution increased crop yields and cut hunger dramatically in places like South Asia and Latin America by putting more land into cultivation and by using higher yielding varieties of rice, maize and other crops. The result for India, for example, was transformation from a food importer in need of emergency help from time to time to a major food exporter.
Twice as much land as is currently used would have been needed to feed the growing global population at current levels, according to the US researchers. The green revolution used a combination of intensive farming techniques and chemical fertilisers as well as the higher-yield varieties to avoid that.
However, as we now know, there were longer term implications to this method of farming – in the effects of chemical fertilisers on the soil, the environment, insects, plants, animals and sometimes human health.
Lessons have been learned and at least the language has changed. The talk now is all about sustainable farming, natural, healthier foods and a new range of low-chem agricultural products, including biopesticides, biofungicides and yield enhancers, coming from the Biopesticides Researchers that do less harm to the land.
These low-chem products are only part of the mix. There is also the technique of genetic modification although there are many people who are very wary of the unknown pandora’s box this might open.
Changing diet patterns towards eating more meat as the BRIC countries become more prosperous and develop a larger, urban middle class are another factor. Meat production is generally regarded as an inefficient use of land and water, so persuading people to eat less of it, while it would have an effect on the emission of greenhouse gases, might be a tall order in some parts of the world.
Plainly there’s a limited amount of land available for agricultural expansion, not to mention the production of biofuels. Increasingly extreme weather won’t help.
In addition therefore reaching global agreement on efforts to curb emissions in a way that is accepted as fair by all countries is another key to achieving some kind of sense on global warming, climate change and food production. It’s to be hoped that the pessimistic predictions for Mexico in November prove not to be true, since all our futures depend on it.
Copyright (c) 2010 Alison Withers