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When success is a half-full glass An apple a day prevents brain-cell damage An apple may supply major bioactive compounds, which reduce the risk of neurodegenerative disorders. Human running and evolution THE ABILITY to run shaped our anatomy, making us look like we do today. Humans evolved from ape-like ancestors because they needed to run long distances — perhaps to hunt animals or scavenge carcasses on Africa's vast savannah. That is ... IT TRENDS Pay-by-use computing is coming Why own computers, when you can just buy the number-crunching muscle you need? Anand Parthasarathy explores the emerging options of utility computing. Dinosaur extinction occurred at diversity peak ACCORDING TO a new analysis of global fossil records by a team of researchers led by a University of Rhode Island palaeontologist, when dinosaurs became extinct from the effects of a massive asteroid hitting Earth 65 million years ago, there were ...
Soft wood grafting ideal for cocoaSOFT WOOD grafting is the best method of propagation for production and multiplication of high yielding varieties of cocoa. "Soft wood grafts as superior planting material is practised in almost all the cocoa producing countries by different ... Sulphide injury in rice Healthy rice plants release sufficient quantities of oxygen to inactivate the accumulated sulphide in the rhizosphere. Control of bud and boll shedding in cotton COTTON IS commercially grown as a kharif crop during the month of August-September. Flowering commences from October to November and continues until harvest. Bud and boll shedding in cotton is a continuous process and the intensity of shedding ... Shoot and fruit borer in brinjal BRINJAL IS prone to attack bythe brinjal fruit and shoot borer, Luecinodes arbonalis. During the early stages of the crop the larva bores into the shoots resulting in drying and dropping of shoots. On reproduction, the larva bores into ... FARM QUERIES Botanical names QUESTION: What is the botanical name for Siru kurinjan and Manarthakkali? K. Thanigaivel, Dharmapuri, Tamil Nadu N. Pattamal, Chennai ANSWER: The botanical name for Siru kurinjan is ... Tamil name Readers are invited to send their queries with full postal address to `Farm Queries', The Hindu, Kasturi Buildings, 859/860, Anna Salai,Chennai 600002 or email to farmqueries@thehindu.co.in ...
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