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Desi Plough-Making Soil Friable for Agriculture in Rural Areas

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  This year Covid-19 pushes everyone to went their native place(villages).I also get a chance to go there during the sowing of crop season or we can say agricultural season  (May -June) after so many year.  I also tried a little to plough because I was new to see that how does  the practice of agriculture in my village.Too much effort or hard work needed to do this work but unfortunately we does not give attention to farmers work. Let's come to the point here People  still use desiplough and kudali  for tillage practice as technology is growing faster . Little bit about plough    Tillage is the basic operation in farming. It is done to create favourable conditions for seed placement and plant growth. This is done mainly with a plough.  Farmers have been using plough since time immemorial. The primitive model might have been a crooked twig or a branch of a tree. The basic components of the plough are a shoe, a share, a body, a handle and a bea...
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CUMIN-THE MIRACLEOUS SPICE

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  Cumin , also spelled  cummin , ( Cuminum cyminum ), small, slender  annual   herb  of the family  Apiaceae (Umbelliferae) with finely dissected leaves and white or rose-coloured flowers. Native to the Mediterranean region, cumin is also  cultivated  in  India ,  China , and  Mexico  for its fruits, called seeds, which are used to flavour a variety of foods. Different names  Cuminum cyminum is the biological scientific name of cumin. In Sanskrit  Cumin is called Jiraka  means digestion.In Hindi it is called Jira,jeera,zeera or Safaid jeera.In Gujarati it is called jjiru or jeeru,In Kannada called jeeriege,in Kashmir called Zyur,In Malalayam called jeerakam,in Marathi called jeregire,in Oriya called jira in Sindhi called zero etc  Cumin  has been use since ancient times.Seed excavated at the Syrian location Tell edderva have been dated to second Millennium B.C.Some information revealed about ancient Eg...
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CHILGOZA: CHAMPION OF ROCKY MOUNTAINS

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  ABOUT THE SPECIES: Pinus   gerardiana commonly known as Chilgoza Pine is one of the 29 important edible nut yielding Pine species found all over the world. It is the only conifer in India which bears highly nutritious edible nuts.  It is one of the indigenous and socio-economically important conifer of inner drier regions of Himachal Pradesh & J&K.  It is a small to medium sized evergreen pine tree, 10-20m tall with compact appearance having short and horizontal branches with usually deep, wide and open crowns with long, erect branches.  It belongs to the family Pinaceae. It is also known as “ Champion of   Rocky Mountains  ” because it grows on inaccessible and difficult site conditions which commonly prevail in inner drier tracts of Western Himalayan region.  Chilgoza Pine was first discovered by British Army Officer 'Captain Patrick   Gerard ' in the year 1832 in India. It is a very slow growing tree and its average life span is...
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