ALL THAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT MICROGREENS What is a MICROGREEN? Microgreens, tiny leafy vegetables, are becoming a new cooking ingredient.It is a young, delicate green with two fully developed cotyledons that look like the first pair of true leaves or partially developed.They are young, delicate leaf green cotyledons, presented in a useful palette of colors, textures, and flavors.Microgreens are a new class of edible vegetables that are harvested when the first leaf is fully bloomed, but before the actual leaves appear. Microgreens, also known as "vegetarian confetti", are various small and delicate plant seedlings used to add variety and color to salad mixes. WHICH SPECIES ARE GROWN AS MICROGREENS? Microgreens can grow from a variety of seeds. The most popular varieties are obtained from the seeds of the following plant families: Cruciferous : Cauliflower, broccoli, cabbage, watercress, radish and arugula. Apiaceae : dill, carrots, fennel and celery.Amary...
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AGRICULTURAL HISTORY OF ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS
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The Andaman islands have been inhabited for several thousand years, at the very least. The earliest archaeological evidence yet documented goes back some 2,200 years; however, the indications from genetic, cultural, and isolation studies suggest that the islands may have been inhabited as early as the Middle Paleolithic . The Andamans are theorized to be a key stepping stone in a great coastal migration of humans from Africa via the Arabian peninsula , along the coastal regions of the Indian mainland, and towards Southeast Asia, Japan, and Oceania. The first empire to list the islands under its territory was the Maratha Empire. Rajendra Chola I (1014 to 1042 CE) one of the Chola dynasty kings conquered the islands to use them as its strategical navy base against the Srivijaya Empire(a Buddhist-Malay empire based on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia). They called the islands Tinmaitt...