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Volume 01     Issue 60    May 2017

However, there are still challenges to overcome 

to get the full benefit of such mobile apps for 

dairy farms. Many of our farmers are yet to 

upgrade to a smartphone. They need to be 

trained on why and how to use these apps. In 

addition to that, we need to develop localized 

apps for Bangladeshi farm-owners. Security and 

authenticity of data are other vital issues to 

consider. Most importantly today’s dairy farm 

owners in our country must embrace information 

technology applications for better management 

of their farms.

Dr. F H Ansarey

Executive Director

ACI Agribusiness

Mobile Apps in Dairy Farms

The ubiquitous presence of mobile phones in 

our country has opened new avenues of possi-

bilities. This is also true for our dairy sector. With 

the increasing use of mobile applications world-

wide, now dairy farm owners can track all the 

happenings on a farm from breeding, feeding to 

paying workers’ salaries, and enhancing 

efficiency in the long run. Even, some smart 

integrated systems can automatically calculate 

total milk production from the cows, highlighting 

the highest and lowest producers. These smart-

phone apps can also help to keep an inventory 

of feeds, their nutrition value, and total cost. 

Moreover, monitoring of the animals’ health has 

been made easier for farm-owners as the mobile 

apps can keep records of treatment, including 

diagnosis, medication, and vaccination.  




Contents

ACI-Bayer Partnered to Synergize Seed Tech

Omega ADE

Barley Genome Sequenced

EDITORIAL BOARD



Advisory Editor

Prof. Lutfur Rahman

Advisor, ACI Agribusiness

Editor

Shamim Murad

Head of Partnership &

Business Development

ACI Agribusiness

Members

Mohammad Muhebbullah Ibne Hoque

Product Development Service Manager

ACI Seed


 

Yusuf Alam

Asst. Marketing Manager

ACI Fertilizer

Tanmoy Majumder

Assistant Product Manager

ACI Motors

Abrar Shahriyar Mridha

Asst. Manager

ACI Agrolink

Adeeba Raihan

Senior Scientist

Advanced Seed Research

& Biotech Centre

Mahmudul Haque Jishan

Planning Executive

Premiaflex Plastics Ltd.

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Biotech Corner

4  


Innovation and New Products

5 - 8 


Events and Activities 

9 - 12  Agri-tech and Communication

13 - 14  Readers’ Corner

 

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A team of researchers at the University of 



California, along a group of 77 scientists 

worldwide, have sequenced the complete 

genome of barley, a key ingredient in beer 

and single malt Scotch.

Bayer CropScience Ltd., a Germany based 

leading agri-input company in Bangladesh, has 

joined hands with ACI Ltd on 18 April 2017 for 

improving rice yields in Aman season.

ACI Animal Health launched Omega 

ADE on 17 April 2017. Each ml of 

Omega ADE contains Vitamin Do 

20,000 I.U., Vitamin E 40 mg, 

Excipients q.s. to 1ml and Vitamin A 

100,000 I.U. Omega ADE is equally 

effective for all Livestock.

High Value Gene Sources:  Indigenous

Plants, land races, wild relatives & Varieties

The strong genetic base as to diversity is 

necessary for development of crop varieties in 

any country.  With the development process of a 

country this strong base always gets reduced 

over time with pressure from multiple sources- 

continuous monoculture, adoption of HYVs,

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Biotech Corner

High Value Gene Sources:  Indigenous

Plants, Land Races, Wild Relatives & Varieties 

Responsibility for maintaining the biodiversity is 

mainly with public sector organizations with one 

central governing body, like the National Plant 

Genetic Resources Institute (NPGRI); which will 

undertake survey, collection, characterization, 

documentation and sharing with others. Also 

includes developing a complete database of their 

relevant characteristics. Farmer groups can also be 

participating in the activities of the NPGRI on being 

trained. The database developed be made available 

publicly so that the uses of the PGR becomes 

easier and faster. The country-wide research 

stations/substations, universities, government 

installations of farms, forest nurseries, private nurs-

eries, labs of different dimensions an types can 

become partners in preserving PGR in their own 

stations/facilities with information on the central 

database operated by the NPGRI, which will also 

help organizing  sharing of the products of one to 

the other on collaborative MTA basis. Assistance of 

Adeeba Raihan of ASRBC is appreciated.    



Prof. Lutfur Rahman, 

Advisor,  Agribusinesses, ACI Ltd.   

The strong genetic base as to diversity is necessary 

for development of crop varieties in any country.  

With the development process of a country this 

strong base always gets reduced over time with 

pressure from multiple sources- continuous mono-

culture, adoption of HYVs, environmental changes 

and increase in natural calamities e.g. flash floods, 

excessive rainfall, abnormally high temperatures, 

population pressure and encroachment of stressed 

environment. These indigenous varieties or 

landraces and wild relatives of major crops are 

exceptionally important as a genetic base for 

protection against pests and diseases. At the 

moment widespread adoption of modern cultivars 

without pockets of other varieties has lead to reduc-

ing population having inbuilt genetic defenses 

against pathogens and insects thus increasing the 

risk of epidemic attacks.  The endemic plant genetic 

resources have high Zinc, hig Iron, low GI, Low 

Erucic acid, gene/s adaptive to stress environments 

like the high salinity and high drought condtions. 

These gene sources are high value and faster to be 

used in development of new varieties of demand.

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Innovation and New Products

Omega ADE

ACI Animal Health launched Omega ADE on 17 

April 2017. Each ml of Omega ADE contains Vita

min Do 20,000 I.U., Vitamin E 40 mg, Excipients q.s. 

to 1ml and Vitamin A 100,000 I.U. Omega ADE is 

equally effective for all Livestock. In each hatchery, 

it is used during mating or reproduction, before and 

after vaccination, excessive heat and cold. In case 

of Layer, it is also used before administration of 

anthelmintic vaccination or during treatment of any 

diseases. Omega ADE also works in case of broiler 

and pullet during treatment of any diseases. In case 

of other animals, it is also helpful before vaccination 

& during any treatment. Omega ADE is available in 

500 ml packs. 

Syn Biotech

Syn Biotech is a natural source of Synbiotic combi

nation of benefit microorganism and Prebiotic. It 

helps to benefit microorganism for permanent colo

nization, prevent pathogen colonization, increase 

digestive enzyme, acidulant in gut and decrease 

anti-nutrient factors. Syn Biotech is a composition of 

Saccharomyces cerevisiae 1X107 cfu/lit, Bacillus 

subtilis 1X1011 cfu/lit, Bacillus lichenifermis 1X1011 

cfu/lit, Lactobacillus acidophilus 1X1010 cfu/lit, 

Lactobacillus plantarum 1X1010 cfu/lit, Lactobacil

lus lactis 1X1010 cfu/lit, Streptococcus thermophi

lus 1X106 cfu/lit and Fructo Oligosaccharide (FOS) 

20 gm/lit. It is used for Synergistic action of Probiotic 

and Prebiotic to improve gut performance. Syn 

Biotech helps to increase beneficial microorganism 

and stimulate immunity system. It also helps to 

improve digestibility, Feed Conversion Ratio (FCR), 

performance and survival rate. Syn Biotech Signifi

cantly improves production of poultry. It has no side 

effect. ACI Animal Health launched Syn Biotech on 

12 April 2017. It is available in 100 ml packs. Syn 

Biotech is manufactured by Vet Superior Consultant 

Co.Ltd. 


 


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Events and Activities 

ACI-Bayer Partnered to Synergize Seed Tech

ACI Center, Dhaka in presence of officials from the 

Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) and 

officials of both companies.

The partnership will enable a higher reach of 

hybrid seed technology to farmers. Arize® Dhani 

Gold has Bacterial Leaf Blight (BLB) tolerance, 

which is one of the major concerns for Bangla-

deshi farmers in the Aman season. It also has a 

20-25% higher yield capacity as compared to local 

High Yielding Varieties. The duration of the hybrid 

is relatively shorter and can be harvested within 

125-130 days (Seed to Seed), which means farm-

ers can grow other winter crops like mustard, 

potato etc. prior to Boro paddy. Arize® Dhani 

Gold, which was released in Bangladesh a few 

years back, is gaining popularity among farmers 

for its unique features. The Department of Agricul-

tural Extension in Bangladesh is focusing more on 

improving productivity in Aman season which can 

reduce pressure on input-intensive Boro paddy 

cultivation. The Bayer-ACI partnership will create 

a strong synergy to promote this technology to the 

farming community to increase the overall paddy 

productivity during the Aman season. 

Bayer CropScience Ltd., a Germany based lead-

ing agri-input company in Bangladesh, has joined 

hands with ACI Ltd on 18 April 2017 for improving 

rice yields in Aman season. Bayer and ACI will 

distribute ‘Arize® Dhani Gold’, a hybrid rice variety 

from Bayer for Aman season, simultaneously in 

Bangladesh through their distribution channel.  

Srinivasa Kumar Karavadi, Managing Director, 

Bayer CropScience Ltd, Bangladesh and Dr. F. H 

Ansarey, Executive Director, Agro Division, ACI 

Ltd. signed a partnership agreement in 



ACI Fertilizer at Mungbean Fair 2017

To introduce and promote balanced fertilization to 

farmers as well as other stakeholders, ACI Ferti-

lizer participated in the Mungbean Fair 2017 held 

on Sunday, 23 April 2017 at Gymnasium, Patu-

akhali Sadar. SME Club of Bangladesh Institute of 

ICT in Development (BIID) and Patuakhali Cham-

ber of Commerce and Industries (PCCI) jointly 

organized the event with the assistance of the 

DC’s office, Patuakhali and Department of Agricul-

tural Extension (DAE). The institutional 



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PCCI President Mr. Mohiuddin Ahmed were also 

present in the session as special guests.

To recognize the crop's abundant production in the 

locality and help local producers get better results, 

ACI Fertilizer team demonstrated various ways to 

improve yield by using micronutrient and balanced 

fertilizers. Representatives from mungbean busi-

nesses (various level, within and outside Patu-

akhali), trade bodies, local government as well as 

business specialists, policy-makers, financial insti-

tutes, INGOs, NOGs, agri input and output market 

stakeholders of Mungbean joined the event and 

observed the demonstration on organic, bio-

fertilizer and micronutrient.

technology but also accepted that the private 

sector breeders should be in direct collaboration 

from the beginning of the research on traits of 

demands.  

Twenty-six participants including faculty members 

from universities, scientists of BINA, and ACI have 

participated in the workshop. The participants 

shared and discussed the techniques, traits of 

demands of crop varieties and changing the mind-

set in generating knowledge with skills through 

joint efforts of public and private breeders. This 

workshop sensitized the policymakers, academia, 

and the public and private sector partners towards 

promoting future plant breeding through joint 

efforts. The workshop was directed by Prof. Dr. A. 

K. M. Aminul Islam, General Secretary and 

chaired by Dr. Md. Khairul Bashar, President of 

PBGSB.  ACI  provided  financial  support  to             

PBGSB.  ACI  provided  financial  support  to             

organize the workshop. 

A Workshop on ‘Public-Private Partnership (PPP) 

for Crop Breeding’ was organized by Plant Breed-

ing and Genetics Society of Bangladesh (PBGSB) 

on 22 April 2017 at Bangladesh Agricultural 

University (BAU), Mymensingh. Dr. Md. Shamsher 

Ali, DG, BINA graced in the workshop as Guest of 

Honor while Prof. Dr. Lutfur Rahman, Advisor, ACI 

Agribusiness initiated the discussion with a con-

cept note on Public-Private Partnership (PPP) for 

Crop Breeding. The discussion followed by three 

more notes from Prof. Dr. M. A. Rahim (Director, 

Germplasm Center, BAU), Dr. Mirza Md. Mofazzal 

Islam (Plant Breeding Division, BINA), Prof. Dr. 

Md. Ashraful Hoque (GPB, BAU) on technologies 

and opportunity of research in crop breeding 

through PPP. Participants discussed on possible 

PPP in Plant Breeding. It was interesting to record 

some of the promising varieties of BINA and BAU 

along with the breeding approach of the ACI R&D, 

which generated knowledge of sharing matured 

PPP Workshop for Crop Breeding at BAU

participants at the fair included agri-input compa-

nies, financial institutions, insurance companies, 

potential buyers (traders, processors etc.) and 

different service providers. The objective of the fair 

was to establish a geographical branding for 

Mungbean at Patuakhali. Patuakhali is rich in 

Mung bean production and is the supply center for 

all over the country. The daylong fair was inaugu-

rated by the chief guest Mr. A K M Shamimul 

Haque Siddique, Deputy Commissioner, Patu-

akhali. Mr. Shahid Uddin Akbar was the welcome 

speaker. Mr. Bashir Ahmed, Business Director of 

ACI Fertilizer, SME Club mentors Md. Abdur 

Razak and Md. Kabir Sikder, 



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ACI Motors Stakeholder Meeting at B.Baria

ACI Motors celebrated Pohela Boisakh Countrywide

On 20 April 2017, ACI Motors organized the 

'Mechanics & Customer Meeting-2017' at 

Morichakandi, Bancharampur, B. Baria for 

networking and building relationship with partners 

and stakeholders. M/S Shimul Machinery, Dealer 

of ACI Motors was the local organizer of the event. 

Around 50 mechanics and customers attended 

this program from different upazillas of B Baria. 

Mr. Jakir Hossain, Sales Manager, Central Part, 

Mr. Arafat Hossain, 

aAssistant Product Manager nd, Mr. Abdul Alim 

Sk, Territory Manager, Comilla were present from 

ACI Motors. They addressed the participants for 

product promotion and network development. 

Moreover, ACI products' features & benefits were 

briefly discussed in the meeting. Mechanics and 

customers also gave their feedback. Lastly, Mr. 

Shimul Hossain, Proprietor of M/S Shimul Machin-

ery gave his insights on product promotion and 

marketing guideline.



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On the occasion of Bengali New Year 1424, ACI 

Motors arranged an array of events to celebrate 

Pohela Boisakh (The first day of Bengali New 

Year) countrywide in April 2017. Covering all the 

four zones (East, Central, South, and North) of the 

country, the Bengali New Year celebration brought 

festivity at 27 different locations while touching the 

hearts of more than 3000 people. During these 

celebrations, ACI Motors welcomed customers 

with gifts, snacks, and lunch. Product Display also 

took place in a festive mood countywide. A 

remarkable part was the Yamaha Test Ride seg-

ment organized in the capital city during the New 

Year celebration. 



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Barley Genome Sequenced

of the genome that have been vulnerable to genetic 

bottlenecking during domestication, knowledge that 

helps to guide breeders to optimize genetic diver-

sity in their crop improvement efforts. Ten years 

ago, the International Barley Genome Sequencing 

Consortium, which is led by Nils Stein of the Leibniz 

Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research 

in Germany, set out to assemble a complete refer-

ence sequence of the barley genome.

(Source: Agriculture and Food News, ScienceDaily. 

www.sciencedaily.com)

A team of researchers at the University of Califor-

nia, along a group of 77 scientists worldwide, have 

sequenced the complete genome of barley, a key 

ingredient in beer and single malt Scotch. The 

research, 10 years in the making, was just pub-

lished in the journal Nature. "This takes the level of 

completeness of the barley genome up a huge 

notch," said Timothy Close, a professor of genetics 

at UC Riverside. "It makes it much easier for 

researchers working with barley to be focused on 

attainable objectives, ranging from new variety 

development through breeding to mechanistic stud-

ies of genes." The research will also aid scientists 

working with other "cereal crops," including rice, 

wheat, rye, maize, millet, sorghum, oats and even 

turfgrass, which like the other food crops, is in the 

grass family, Close said.

Barley has been used for more than 10,000 years 

as a staple food and for fermented beverages, and 

as animal feed. It is found in breakfast cereals and 

all-purpose flour and helps bread rise. Malted 

barley gives beer color, body, protein to form a good 

head, and the natural sugars needed for fermenta-

tion. And single malt Scotch is made from only 

water and malted barley. The report in Nature 

provides new insights into gene families that are 

key to the malting process. The barley genome 

Barley is one of the world's most important cereal crops.



Photo Credit: Close Lab, UC Riverside.

The process yields biomolecules that would be unextractable using 

existing methods.

Photo Credit: KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Plastics from Byproducts of Wheat Milling?

It's usually used as livestock feed, but wheat bran's 

value in human nutrition and medicine may soon 

reach its full potential with a new sustainable 

processing method developed by Swedish 

researchers. As a commodity, the least valuable 

part of the wheat grain is the bran -- the outer coat-

ing of the kernel, which is typically sold as animal 

feed. Now researchers at KTH Royal Institute of 

Technology in Stockholm have developed a 

process to extract valuable biomolecules from this 

offal which could be used as antioxidants, prebiot-

ics and even food packaging material. The extrac-

tion process uses only hot, high pressure water and 

carbohydrate-active enzymes to harvest wheat 

bran's hemicelluloses and oligosaccharides.   This 

process allows these polysaccharides to retain 



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interconnected and recalcitrant," Vilaplana says. 

One way to do it is with alkaline, but that also 

destroys the part of the molecule that gives it its 

antioxidant functions. "We use a cascade approach 

where we first extract the hemicelluloses in polymer 

form and then we use the enzymes to selectively 

tackle the un-extractable residue. In this way we 

maximize total yields of valuable biomolecules from 

the bran," he says.

(Source: Agriculture and Food News, ScienceDaily. www.sciencedaily.com)

villosa outsource offspring protection to a bacte-

rium. Moreover, a newly discovered antibiotic agent 

in the study resembles a plant defense compound.

(Source: Agriculture and Food News, ScienceDaily. www.sciencedaily.com)

Lagria villosa beetle.



Photo Credit: Laura V. Flórez, JGU

(Source: Crop Biotech Update, International Service for Acquisition of 

Agri-Biotech Applications. www.isaaa.org)

their antioxidant properties -- which are stripped away 

through ordinary alkaline extraction techniques.

Andrea Ruthes, postdoctoral researcher, and Fran-

cisco Vilaplana, associate professor in Glycosci-

ence at KTH Royal Institute of Technology are the 

scientists behind this discovery, which was reported 

in the recent issue of the journal Green Chemistry. 

"In bran and other cereal tissues, the hemicellu-

loses are difficult to extract because they're tighly 



Symbiotic Bacteria: From Hitchhiker to Bodyguard

An international team of researchers have discov-

ered a remarkable microbe with a Jekyll and Hyde 

character. The bacterium Burkholderia gladioli lives 

in specific organs of a plant-feeding beetle and 

defends the insect's eggs from detrimental fungi by 

producing antibiotics. However, when transferred to 

a plant, the bacterium can spread throughout the 

tissues and negatively affect the plant. Microbes are 

not always hostile players when interacting with 

animals and plants, they can also be powerful allies. 

In fact, transitions between antagonistic and coop-

erative lifestyles in microbes are likely not an excep-

tion, although such shifts have rarely been observed 

directly. In a new study published in Nature Commu-

nications, researchers from Johannes Gutenberg 

University Mainz (JGU), the Max Planck Institute for 

Chemical Ecology and the Leibniz Institute for Natu-

ral Product Research and Infection Biology -- Hans 

Knöll Institute (HKI) -- in Jena, and the Universidad 

Estadual Paulista in Rio Claro, Brazil, gathered 

evidence for such a transition. Beetles like Lagria 



Scientists Develop GE Rice that Flower on Demand 

University of Tokyo researchers genetically engi-

neered rice that does not flower until it comes in 

contact with a specific fungicide. The results are 

published in Nature Plants. Takeshi Izawa and 

colleagues developed non-flowering rice plants by 

overexpressing a floral repressor gene (Grain 

number, plant height and heading date 7) to block 

natural flowering. Then they co-transformed plants 

with a rice florigen gene (Heading date 3a), which is 

induced by particular agrochemicals. Plants that 

undergo a longer time of vegetative growth exhib-

ited improved plant and panicle size as well as other 

yield-related characteristics. The results of the study 

can lead to the development of crops that can grow 

in different climate types and facilitate breeding for 

different agronomical characteristics.



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Mary Wang´ombe and Badou Mendy from the Department of Molecular 

Phytomedicine at the University of Bonn.

Photo Credit: Molekulare Phytomedizin/Uni Bonn

Deciphering Plant Immunity against Parasites

they parasitize important crops such as wheat, 

soybean, and banana; but plants can defend them-

selves. Researchers at Bonn University, together 

with collaborators from the Sainsbury Laboratory in 

Norwich, identified a protein that allows plants to 

recognize a chemical signal from the worm and 

initiate immune responses against the invaders. This 

discovery will help to develop crop plants that feature 

enhanced protection against this type of parasites. 

The work is published in the current issue of PLOS 

Pathogens.

Plant-parasitic nematodes are microscopic worms 

that parasitize their host plants to withdraw water and 

nutrients. The feeding process seriously damages 

the host plant. Nematode infection distorts root and 

shoot structure, compromises the plant´s ability to 

absorb nutrients from soil, and eventually reduces 

crop yield. Yearly losses exceed ten percent in impor-

tant crops such as wheat, soybean, and banana. In 

addition to causing direct damage, nematode infection

Spermidine-Rich Foods May Extend Lifespan

Spermidine -- a compound found in foods like aged 

cheese, mushrooms, soy products, legumes, corn 

and whole grains -- seems to prevent (at least in 

animal models) liver fibrosis and hepatocellular carci-

noma, which is the most common type of liver cancer. 

There is also some evidence that it may prolong lifes-

pan, according to a study published recently in the 

journal Cancer Research. Researchers gave animal 

models an oral supplement of spermidine and found 

that they lived longer and were less likely than 

untreated individuals to have liver fibrosis and 

cancerous liver tumors, even when predisposed for 

those conditions.

"It's a dramatic increase in lifespan of animal models, 

as much as 25 percent," said Leyuan Liu, PhD, assis-

tant professor at the Texas A&M Institute of 

Biosciences and Technology's Center for Transla-

tional Cancer Research. "In human terms, that would 

mean that instead of living to about 81 years old, the 

average American could live to be over 100." The 

trouble is that people would need to begin ingesting 

spermidine from the time they begin eating solid food 

to get this kind of significant improvement in their 

lifespans; those animal models treated later only saw 

a 10 percent increase in longevity. Still, it may be the 

most sustainable option scientists have found yet. 

"Only three interventions -- severely cutting the 

number of calories consumed, restricting the amount 

of methionine (a type of amino acid found in meat and 

other proteins) in the diet and using the drug rapamy-

cin -- have been shown to truly prolong the lifespans 

of vertebrates, but eating less and not eating meat 

will not be welcomed by general population, while 

rapamycin has shown to suppress the human 

immune system," Liu said. "Therefore, spermidine 

may be a better approach."

(Source: Agriculture and Food News, ScienceDaily. www.sciencedaily.com)

also provides an opportunity for other pathogens to 

invade and attack the host plants.

(Source: Agriculture and Food News, ScienceDaily. www.sciencedaily.com)



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New Data Unearths Pesticide Peril in Beehives

Honeybees -- employed to pollinate crops during the 

blooming season -- encounter danger due to lingering 

and wandering pesticides, according to a new Cornell 

University study that analyzed the bee's own food. 

Researchers used 120 pristine honeybee colonies that 

were placed near 30 apple orchards around New York 

state. After allowing the bees to forage for several days 

during the apple flowering period, the scientists exam

ined each hive's "beebread" -- the bees' food stores 

made from gathered pollen -- to search for traces of 

pesticides.

In 17 percent of colonies, the beebread revealed the 

presence of acutely high levels of pesticide exposure, 

while 73 percent were found to have chronic exposure. 

"Surprisingly, there is not much known about the mag

nitude of risk or mechanisms of pesticide exposure 

when honeybees are brought in to pollinate major 

agricultural crops," said lead author Scott McArt, 

assistant professor of entomology at Cornell. "Bee-

keepers are very concerned about pesticides, but 

there's very little field data. We're trying to fill that gap 

in knowledge, so there's less mystery and more fact 

regarding this controversial topic."

(Source: Agriculture and Food News, ScienceDaily. 

www.sciencedaily.com)

Honeybees create honey in their hive through the topped-out combs, and 

they keep beebread -- their food -- in the other combs.



Photo Credit: gudrin / Fotolia

Turning Chicken Feces, Weeds Into Biofuel

Chicken is a favorite, inexpensive meat across the 

globe. But the bird's popularity results in a lot of waste 

that can pollute soil and water. One strategy for deal

ing with poultry poop is to turn it into biofuel, and now 

scientists have developed a way to do this by mixing 

the waste with another environmental scourge, an 

invasive weed that is affecting agriculture in Africa. 

They report their approach in ACS' journal Energy & 

Fuels.


Poultry sludge is sometimes turned into fertilizer, but 

recent trends in industrialized chicken farming have 

led to an increase in waste mismanagement and nega

tive environmental impacts, according to the United 

Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. Droppings 

can contain nutrients, hormones, antibiotics and heavy 

metals and can wash into the soil and surface water. 

To deal with this problem, scientists have been work-

ing on ways to convert the waste into fuel. But alone, 

poultry droppings don't transform well into biogas, so 

it's mixed with plant materials such as switch grass. 

Samuel O. Dahunsi, Solomon U. Oranusi and 

colleagues wanted to see if they could combine the 

chicken waste with Tithonia diversifolia (Mexican 

sunflower), which was introduced to Africa as an orna-

mental plant decades ago and has become a major 

nent. The researchers developed a process to pre-treat 

chicken droppings, and then have anaerobic microbes 

digest the waste and Mexican sunflowers together. 

Eight kilograms of poultry waste and sunflowers 

produced more than 3 kg of biogas -- more than 

enough fuel to drive the reaction and have some lefto-

ver for other uses such as powering a generator. Also, 

the researchers say that the residual solids from the 

process could be applied as fertilizer or soil conditioner.

(Source: Agriculture and Food News, ScienceDaily. 

www.sciencedaily.com)



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Believe it or not!

Nutrition Chart

Tips

Bean helps us to be fit and healthy in many ways:

Studies have shown that people who eat more legumes have a lower risk of heart disease.

Beans contain a wide range of cancer-fighting plant chemicals, specifically, isoflavones and phytosterols 

which are associated with reduced cancer risk.

Beans also contain saponins and phytosterols, which help lower cholesterol.

Beans are a diabetes sufferer's superfood! The balance of complex carbohydrates and protein provides a 

slow, steady source of glucose instead of the sudden surge that can occur after eating simple carbohydrates.

The low-fat nature of beans makes it easier for you to lose weight.

Beans are the only cultivated plants that actually 

enrich, rather than deplete, the soil during the growing 

process.


Beans have been cultivated by humans for 6,000 

years. 


The earliest reference to baked beans was in 1832 

in a book called American Frugal Housewife.

One can of baked beans is sold in the UK every 

17 seconds. 

Pythagoras disliked bean. He thought that dead 

people’s soul lied in beans. 



Bean (100 grams)

Calories


Sugar

Total Fat

Protein

Potassium



347

2.1 g


1.2 g

21 g


1393 mg

Sodium


Dietary fiber

12 mg


16 g

Source: USDA




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In 1966, Ronald Reagan, then running for governor of California, started snacking on jelly beans 

from the Herman Goelitz Candy Company in his efforts to quit pipe smoking. While he stopped 

smoking, he developed a serious jelly bean jones. When he was elected US president, he kept a 

jar on his desk and handed out the candy as gifts. A special jelly-bean jar holder was even 

installed for him on the presidential jet, and Reagan even sent beans on the Challenger space 



shuttle in 1983 as a treat for the astronauts.

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