Everyone is agreed that one of the central components of achieving an „African Green Revolution‟ is to tackle the widespread soil fertility constraints in African agriculture. To this end, AGRA – the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa – has launched a major new „Soil Health‟ programme aimed at 4.1 million farmers across Africa, with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation committing $198 m...

A central element of the Green Revolution was the widespread adoption of semidwarf rice cultivars (SRCs) that more than doubled worldwide rice production (1). The high-yield potentials of modern SRCs are attributed primarily to their improved harvest index, lodging resistance, and responsiveness to high inputs (primarily nitrogen and water) (1–3), contributing to their adoption in irrigated are...

revolution related art, the holy defense and related concepts have dedicated an important part of the iranian contemporary art to themselves during the past three decades. iraj eskandari, painter and academic member of the tehran university of arts, is one of the prolific contemporary artists in iran; his works are blended with the experience of life during wartime and reflects a set of realist...

Edible vaccines are sub-unit vaccines where the selected genes are introduced into the plants and the transgenic plant is then induced to manufacture the encoded protein. Edible vaccines are mucosal targeted vaccines where stimulation of both systematic and mucosal immune network takes place. Foods under study include potatoes, bananas, lettuce, rice, wheat, soybean, corn and legumes. Edible va...

The First Green Revolution during 1970 s targeted to the four basic elements of production system viz. semi-dwarf high yielding varieties of rice and wheat, extensive use of irrigation, fertilizers and agro-chemicals and consequently resulted in terrific increase in the agricultural production. However, the agricultural production is experiencing a plateau nowadays, which has adversely affected...

Osteoporosis is a major health problem in both elderly women and men. Epidemiological evidence has shown an association between tea consumption and the prevention of age-related bone loss in elderly women and men. Ingestion of green tea and green tea bioactive compounds may be beneficial in mitigating bone loss of this population and decreasing their risk of osteoporotic fractures. This review ...

production of family poultry is one of the activities which women in the villages participate and several factors effect on their participation in these activities. the purpose of this descriptive- correlational study was to investigate factors related to the participation level of rural women in family poultry activities. the statistical population consisted all rural households in maragheh co...