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The International Year of Pulses was celebrated at a Food Fest at the Salsabeel Central School in Mundur Thrissur. The event focused on the importance of pulse items in the daily food of children. the slogan of food fest was "Love Pulses, Love vegetables". The students of classes four to twelve brought a variety of delicious food items, prepared at home with the help of their parents, to the school.
Pulses were included in almost all dishes. Traditional food like 'Naaadan Payaru Kari', 'Kappa-Chammanthy', 'Athissaya Pathiri', and other new generation dishes were all available in the different stalls.Chicken rolls prepared by two students on the spot, were sold as hot cakes.
There was an exhibition sale of vegetables, with a variety of pulse items brought by the students and teachers cultivated at their home. An awareness class on the cultivation and use of pulses was conducted. Seeds of beans were also distributed to all students.
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Anis Majeed, chairman of Bombiʼs Group, recently participated in a special program on National Television for awareness of the International Year of Pulses 2016 in Pakistan.
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The ABC Landline Program has featured the International Year of Pulses in their episode titled "Pulses Boom". Landline is a hit Australian national rural issues television program featuring Pip Courtney. The program covers issues regarding farming, mining, and fisheries.
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This article originally appeared on ciat.cgiar.org
Five new bean varieties bred with high iron and resilience to the impacts of drought have been released in Uganda for the first time.
The varieties — co-developed by the National Crops Resources Research Institute (NaCRRI), the Rwandan Agricultural Board (RAB) and CIAT through HarvestPlus, released as part of the government’s strategy to tackle malnutrition and reduce anemia in the country, especially in children and expectant mothers.
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Yantai Gan, Research Scientist, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
The fight against climate change calls upon all economic sectors to do their part. Agriculture accounts for about 8% to 12% of total greenhouse gas emissions worldwide and the way that grain and other food crops are produced on farmland has significant impacts on the amount and type of these emissions. Adopting improved farming practices can increase crop yield while reducing the ‘carbon footprints’ of agricultural products.
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This article originally appeared on foundationfar.org.
Beginning in 2017, the new $100,000 prize will recognize one annual recipient for an extraordinary contribution to agriculture or to the understanding of the biology of a species fundamentally important to agriculture or food production. Joint support from the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation endows the prize in perpetuity.