Super Papaya Enzyme Plus from American Health

Super Papaya Enzyme Plus from American Health is a sugar-free chewable containing papaya. The “After Meal” Supplement These are made from 100% natural ingredients: papaya fruit, papain, and protease, alpha-amylase, bromelain, lipase, and cellulose, in a base containing peppermint and chlorophyll (for refreshing taste and sweet breath) sorbitol, mannitol, and acacia. This product is wonderful for getting rid of heartburn and tastes better than other antacids.
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Red Anthurium Hawaiian Volcano Rock Bonsai

Red Anthurium Hawaiian Volcano Rock Bonsai is beautiful and excellent for the home, office, apartment or dorm room. Blooms year round. Growing on lava rock from the “Big Island” of Hawaii . These bonsai style plants thrive on their rock homes and make excellent house or office plants!

Care Is Easy! Water the whole rock once or twice a week depending on conditions. The rock may be placed in a saucer of water, thereby requiring even less maintainence. They are perfect plant rental units or decorative pieces for homes and watergardens.

Place them in a bright window, and just keep a small amount of water in the saucer. Fertilize monthly with 1/4 strength of a good quality soluble fertilizer found at your local home and garden shop.
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Flowtron Electronic Insect Killer

The Flowtron 80-watt electronic insect killer is effective, Environmentally Friendly, Maintenance Free. Attracts and Kills Flying Insect Pests. It utilizes a high-intensity black light bulb to lure and eliminate light-sensitive flying insects and is designed to protect an area of up to 1-1/2 acres. Maintenance free operation features UV light and an electrified grid that eliminates thousands of flying pests for just pennies a day. Two 40-watt, high-intensity, “U” shaped, ultraviolet (black light) bulbs BF-150. Transformer-powered Vertical Rod killing grid system. FREE USDA-tested Octenol mosquito attractant slow release cartridge. Easy bulb replacement – no tools required. Avoids the continuing expense and inconvenience of chemical insecticides. Specifications: UL and CSA listed, Assembled unit size: 11″L x 11″W x 18-1/2″H, Carton size: 11-1/4″L x 11-1/4″W x 19″H.
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ScanControl, Inc. CropTrak(tm) Software Electronic Timesheet Update Released

The CropTrak(tm) farm management software now includes a comprehensive electronic timesheet system. The new feature tracks field crew operations by task and location and allows users to generate detailed activity based cost reports. Read more

Cassava flour processing

The baked products for which cassava flour is the basic ingredient are known commercially as tapiocas or tapioca fancies. In Malaysia and some other areas these products are commonly known in the industry as sago products. The term probably originated with the Chinese production of sago-palm starch products. The manufacture of tapioca fancies is a logical follow-up of the production of the flour itself in the countries of origin. Separation of the processing of the flour and of the derivatives would be illogical. Many medium-size and larger factories are also equipped for the manufacture of such baked products as flakes, seeds, pearls, and grist.

These products are made from partly gelatinized cassava starch obtained by heat treatment of the moist flour in shallow pans. When heated, the wet granules gelatinize, burst, and stick together. The mass is stirred to prevent scorching. They are manufactured in the form of irregular lumps called flakes or of perfectly round beads 16 mm in diameter known as seeds and pearls. The grist is a finer-grained product obtained by milling gelatinized lumps, and siftings and dust are residual products of the manufacture of seeds and pearls.

Preparation of wet flour

The raw material for baked products is the flour scooped up from sedimentation tanks or tables after the supernatant, or excess water, has been drained and the “yellow” flour scraped off. Clearly the use of moist starch, an intermediate stage in the processing of the Dour, is economically advantageous.
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Black tea to maintain vitality and strength in stressful day

Black tea is one of the many variants of tea that people have been consuming for many years throughout the world. It is more oxidized than the other varieties of tea. It is made from the leaves of ‘Camellia Sinensis’, a tea plant having an evergreen shrub. Like other forms of tea, it also contains caffeine, a stimulant that acts to invigorate our senses immediately. It also contains other important ingredients like polyphenols, vitamins, etc. Black tea is also referred to as a tea which is completely devoid of milk.

Processing of Black Tea
The processing of black tea goes through several stages. These stages are:

* The tea leaves are air blown to make them wither right after the harvest
* To get the black tea, either of the two methods are made use of. The first method is known as Crush-Tear-Curl or CTC. The second method is known by the name of orthodox. The CTC method helps in extracting the best quality tea products from medium or low quality tea leaves. In the orthodox method, hand processing is done to process high quality teas. This results in a kind of tea, the taste of which is sought by many tea lovers Read more

Strategy sustainable agriculture development

Agriculture in Indonesia is characterized by worries over the shift from subsistence production to market-oriented production. This transformation was once embraced as one of the requirements for increasing productivity.

Although improving the availability of crops to the majority of people working in other sectors, this transformation is affecting the agricultural sector. It did not eliminate unbalanced and discriminatory market structures and it lowered the costs of commodities, thereby forcing market-oriented farmers to be worse off than subsistence farmers, who are more dependent on environmental conditions.

A strategy to develop sustainable development is a shift toward synergizing the different goals of protecting crops, safeguarding income and developing sustainable agriculture. They should be incorporated in national development goals and agricultural promotion efforts. Read more

Fruit Picker Make Harvesting Easier

The Twister is small, smooth and light. It slips through your fruit tree like a bird. You open the fruit holders when it gets to the fruit. When you let the fruit holders close on the fruit, your two hands are free for a quick twist. No more struggling through the limbs and twigs as you do with a basket or a bag . The Twister is fast. You or Grandma can pick with the Twister, on average, more beautiful, undamaged fruit in five minutes than you can with a large clumsy bag or basket. And, most importantly, instead of frustration, you will be smiling. The Twister is made of aluminum and plastic in my hobby shop. I guarantee it to please you. The Twister comes complete with picker, rope, and bungee cord. The pole in not included because of shipping costs. If your tree is not over 12 feet tall, a 48 in. broom stick with threads on one end and a hole in the other, will work fine. Read more

Tiller/Cultivator with Border Edger and Kickstand from Mantis

The Mantis 2-cycle tiller has remained the gardener’s best friend for over 25 years. With well over a million units sold, it is the most recognized and accredited roto-tiller in the world and a Consumers Digest Best Buy for 9 consecutive years. The 2-cycle Mantis tills 10 inches deep and 9 inches wide, and its tines are patented and reversible to cultivate and weed up to 3 inches deep. This handy, sleek, lightweight unit can fit into narrow areas with ease and is ideal for raised beds as well. With 9 optional attachments the tiller can also trim hedges, aerate, dethatch, plow, furrow and much, much more.

Weighs only 20 pounds; Easy to handle, fun to use; Patented serpentine tines spin at up to 240 RPM; Easily tills down up to 10″ deep; Cuts through hard sod, compact soil or tangly weeds; Weeds and cultivates even in narrow rows; Convenient 9″ tine width and fold-down handles.
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Be Healthy with Soy Bean Nutrition

Soy bean is a complete reservoir of nutrients, especially proteins. It is the phytochemicals in soybean that prevents blood clotting from taking place. It aids in protecting the heart against oxidation. As far as the soy bean nutritional value is concerned, soybean serves as an excellent source of essential fatty acids, calcium, magnesium, lecithin, riboflavin, thiamin, fiber, folate (folic acid), and iron. Soybean contains isoflavones that minimizes the risk of developing certain cancers. Soybean, being a fabulous source of proteins, aids in lowering the cholesterol level. Genistein, an isoflavone in soybean, protects the body from the clutches of plague disease.

Soy for Heart Health

The cholesterol lowering effect of soy milk and its role of heart disease was widely recognized in the mid 90s when the results of a meta-analysis of 38 clinical studies were published. The results demonstrated that a diet with significant soy protein reduces Total Cholesterol, LDL cholesterol (the “Bad” cholesterol) and Triglycerides.

The average consumption in these studies was 47 grams per day of soy protein, which is a considerable amount. One way to include this is to try a soy protein beverage or powder that may add 20 grams preserving. Soy protein was effective even in people who were already following the American Heart Association’s 30 percent-fat diet. Soy protein appears to lower triglyceride levels while preserving HDL cholesterol.

Researchers Erdman & Potter in 1993 reported in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition a 12 percent drop in cholesterol when 20 to 25 grams of soy protein and fiber were included in the diet. Soy beans contain soluble fiber, which is known to interfere with the absorption and metabolism of cholesterol.

As a result of these findings, in 1999, FDA authorized a health claim about the relationship between soy protein and Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) on labelling of foods containing soy protein.

A few recent studies released in 2005 found that soy only had a modest effect on cholesterol levels. The American Heart Association no longer recommends soy for heart disease. FDA is currently reviewing its policy on soy health claim. So what should you do? Enjoy your soy foods like before. It may not lower cholesterol to an extent we originally thought, but it certainly does not harm our health!

Soy for Healthy Bones

Many soy foods are naturally high in calcium (some fortified with calcium because it is a good source of a particular coagulating agent). In addition, soy also contains magnesium and boron, which are important co-factors of calcium for bone health. Read more

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