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Fruit Fair in Rajshahi

A fruit fair has recently taken place in GodagariUpazilla of Rajshahi District from 19th to 21st July 2018. The fair was organized by Godagari Department of Agriculture Extension and local MP Omar Faruk Chowdhury was present as the chief guest in the fair. ACI Fertilizer along with ACI Motors participated »

Breeding values of studying Cucumber Mosaic Virus

Being an ultramicroscopic obligatory parasite, viruses are quite difficult to study. In ancient time, plant viral diseases were identified based on only symptoms. Controlling viral diseases of plants has always been difficult as a virus has no cellular component. Molecular biology has changed the world of virology, pathology etc. Since »

Sharing is Caring!

Do you know that there are plastics made from corn starch? Such plastics often referred to as 'Corn Starch plastic', comes from fermented plant starch (mostly from corn). Their technical name is Polylactic Acid (PLA). PLA is used for different purposes including making cold drink cups, deli and takeout containers, »

Tips

Unlike other fruits, pears ripen from the inside out. So if you find that they are soft on the outside, probably they are overripe. A problem with cut pears is that they get brown soon. There are several ways to prevent it. Whether you plan to eat soon or do »

Believe it or not!

• There are over 3000 varieties of pears worldwide. • Pears used to be called “butter fruit” for its soft, butter-like texture. • Pears are a part of the rose family. • Before tobacco was introduced in Europe, pear leaves were smoked. • Pears are one of the highest-fiber fruits, offering six grams per medium-sized »

PVS Trails of Hybrid Maize by Smallholder Farmers

ACI Seed’s R&D, PDS and Product Portfolio team jointly conducted preliminary yield trials of 50 exotic hybrid maize varieties of 6 foreign principal companies in the last rabi2017-18 and kharif-I 2018 season. Participatory Varietal Selection (PVS) trials were conducted to validate and include new exotic hybrid maize »

Moving Fish Farms Lets Seagrass Meadows Thrive

Commercial fish farms should be moved away from seagrass meadows in order for both to thrive in the future, according to new research. The meadows boost human well-being and the economies of coastal communities, but waste material from finfish aquaculture is known to have damaged seagrass populations worldwide. However, off »

'Green'-Feed: Industrial Microbes Could Feed Cattle & Chicken

Deforestation, greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity loss, nitrogen pollution -- today's agricultural feed cultivation for cattle, pigs and chicken comes with tremendous impacts for the environment and climate. Cultivating feed in industrial facilities instead of on croplands might help to alleviate the critical implications in the agricultural food supply chain. Protein-rich »

Purdue Study Finds Key to Plant Growth Mechanism

A study from Purdue University led by Daniel Szymanski has mapped a complex series of pathways that control the shape of plant cells. The research team used the model plant Arabidopsis to map the complex pathways that control plant cell shape. The findings may be a key to improving the »

Sugarcane Genome Has Finally Been Sequenced

An international team coordinated by the French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD) has released the genome sequence of sugarcane. The sugarcane's genome is so complex that conventional sequencing techniques were proven useless. It comprises between 10 and 12 copies of each chromosome, when the human genome has just »

Rice with Fewer Stomata: Better Suited for Climate Change

Rice plants engineered to have fewer stomata -- tiny openings used for gas exchange -- are more tolerant to drought and resilient to future climate change, a new study has revealed. Scientists from the University of Sheffield have discovered that engineering a high-yielding rice cultivar to have reduced stomatal density, »