Bananas are the fruit of a plant of the genus Musa‚ which are cultivated primarily for food‚ and secondarily for the production of fibers. It is alleged that there are almost 1000 varieties of bananas in the world‚ subdivided in 50 groups (Bora‚ 2007). The most generally known banana is the seedless Cavendish variety‚ which is the one produced for export markets and pronounced for consuming. The banana is the fruit of an herbaceous plant related to the orchid family and is most commonly found in
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TEXT 1 CASH CROP In agriculture‚ a cash crop is a crop which is grown for profit. The term is used to differentiate from subsistence crops‚ which are those fed to the producer’s own livestock or grown as food for the producer’s family. In earlier times cash crops were usually only a small (but vital) part of a farm’s total yield‚ while today‚ especially in the developed countries‚ almost all crops are mainly grown for cash. In non-developed nations‚ cash crops are usually crops which attract
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Cyclone Yasi Speech Good morning Mr. Black head of the State Emergence Service and fellow volunteers. Cyclone Yasi began developing as a tropical storm near Fiji on 29th January. The system quickly changed and became a cyclone and was named Yasi at 10pm on the 30th by Fiji Meteorological Service. Yasi headed in a westward track and rapidly intensified‚ from a Category 2 at 10am on 31st January and then further to a Category 3 at 7pm that day. Yasi maintained Category 3 intensity for the next 24
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CROP INSURANCE: A Tool to save Farmers from Calamities EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Crop insurance is one of the various types of insurance that are offered to the people. This insurance is directed to the farmers and agriculturists. This Crop insurance scheme has been going on since the time of Kharif 1985. This insurance offers financial assistance for risk management in agriculture. This insurance policy is a relief scheme for the farmers whose crops get spoiled during natural catastrophe. The
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Cyclonic Storm Nilam (IMD designation: BOB 02‚ JTWC designation: 02B‚ also known as Cyclone Nilam) was the worst tropical cyclone to directly affect south India since Cyclone Jal in 2010. Originating from an area of low pressure over the Bay of Bengal on October 28‚ the system began as a weak depression 550 km (340 mi) east-northeast of Trincomalee‚ Sri Lanka. Over the following few days‚ the depression gradually intensified into a deep depression‚ and subsequently a Cyclonic Storm by October 30
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article ¡§Pain at checkout as WA bananas go east¡¨ by Regina Titelius and Jennifer Eliot states that in the wake of cyclone Larry¡¦s unforgiving wrath on Queensland‚ banana prices have soared throughout the nation over the last month and are expected to rise even more following WA¡¦s wholesaler Mercer Mooney declared that Carnarvon bananas would be shipped east. Following cyclone Larry¡¦s destruction on Queensland‚ it has wiped out about 80 per cent of Australia¡¦s bananas destroying fruit worth $300
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Crop Production Techniques of Horticultural Crops 2013 HORTICULTURAL COLLEGE AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE TAMIL NADU AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY COIMBATORE – 641 003 Contents Part I - Fruits Page No. Chapter A - Tropical and Sub Tropical Fruits Mango .................................................................................................................. Banana .....................................................................................................
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A tropical cyclone is a particular type of lowpressure system. It is called a hurricane in theUnited States and a typhoon in Asia. Tropicalcyclones are areas of warm‚ moist air risingrapidly. The upward ¯ow of air is de¯ected by theCoriolis effect (winds de¯ected by the Earth’srotation)‚ creating a rotation around a centralcore‚ known as the `eye’. Tropical cyclones areoften accompanied by very strong winds (gusts ofover 300 kilometres per hour have been recorded)‚torrential rain (1800 millimetres
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Introduction: Bangladesh is prone to a variety of natural hazards. It has witnessed the havoc of some of the worst natural disasters of the world due to tropical cyclones and storm surges. Floods and local seasonal storms are annual events which cause loss of lives and damage to housing‚ agriculture and economy. The country is also exposed to the risk of earthquakes. There are other natural hazard concerns such as coastal erosion and sea level rise due to global warming‚ which have been in the limelight
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the 1970 Cyclone (Nov 12-13) with cyclonic surge of 3.05m to 10.6m high with wind speed of 222 km/h occurred during high tide causing most appalling natural disaster claiming 0.3 million human lives. On the 29 April 1991 a devastating cyclone hit Chittagong‚ Cox’s Bazar‚ Barisal‚ Noakhali‚ Patuakhali‚ Barguna and Khulna along with tidal bore of 5-8m high with wind speed of 240 km/h which killed 150‚000 human beings‚ 70‚000 cattlehead‚ and the total loss was about Tk 60 billion. [HS Mozaddad Faruque]
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