The aonla (Emblica officinalis Gaertn.) is grown on around 25,000 hectares of land in practically every district in central Uttar Pradesh, producing over 250000 MT of fruits annually (Prasad and Yadav, 2005). Because of aonla fruits’ many nutritional and medicinal benefits, its fruit is referred to as a "Wonder Fruit for the Health". However, due of its tannins, which impart an unpleasant and astringent flavor, fruits should not be consumed raw. The purpose of this study is to identify key aonla cultivars that are suitable for pickling and may become more popular as processed fruit products when compared to other processed goods. As a result, the following aonla cultivars were examined: Banarasi, Chakaiya, Kanchan, Krishna, NA-6, NA-7, NA-8, and NA-9. Cultivars were screened using the recipe that was discovered to be optimal for pickle making. Every month, observations on total soluble solids (TSS), browning, acidity, and vitamin "C" were made. Throughout storage, the prepared pickle was also subjected to periodic organoleptic evaluations. Pickle organoleptic ratings showed a progressive deterioration over storage. It was discovered that aonla pickles were suitable for up to nine months. The study determined that the best fruits for preparing high-quality pickles were those of the aonla cultivar NA-7.

The research was held in Kailali District of Nepal to assess the effect of different packaging materials on shelf life and quality of banana fruit. The experimental set up was done in Completely Randomized Design (CRD) with five treatments of different packaging, each replicated four times. There were five different treatments used for the study and they were allotted as follows: T1: No packaging/open (control) T2: Banana leaf, T3: Straw, T4: Polythene bag, T5: Cardboard box. A digital hygrometer for measuring relative humidity and thermometer for measuring temperature were used. RH was recorded every 3rd day. Similarly, temperature was also recorded during those days. R-Studio 4.2.2 version was used for data analysis. TSS was found highest in polythene bag followed by cardboard box and lowest was control followed by straw. TSS (16.020 Brix) was found in polythene bag at 13th day and lowest TSS (5.250 Brix) in at 1st day. At 16th day, maximum TSS was found in polythene bag (15.320 Brix) and minimum in control (12.720 Brix). Titrable Acidity (TA) tends to increase at initial stage but later decreases with increase in storage time. The highest TA (0.32%) was found in polythene bag and lowest (0.24%) was found in control at day 16th. Physiological Loss in Weigh t(PLW) tends to increases with increase in storage time. The highest PLW (27.68 gm) was found in Control and lowest loss (21.61 gm) was found in polythene bag at day 16th. The firmness was decreased with the advancement in storage time in all treatments. The highest firmness (9.385kgcm-2) was found in polythene bag at 1st day and lowest (9.12 kgcm-2) was found in control at 1st day. At the end of the day i.e., at day 16th, maximum firmness was observed in Polythene bag (3.34 kgcm-2), and minimum was observed in control (2.07 kgcm-2) and pulp thickness tends to increase with increase in storage time. At day 16th, the highest pulp thickness (3.34 cm) was found on banana leaf and lowest (2.07 cm) on straw. Based on these findings, it is evident that packaging bananas in polythene bags resulted in significant improvements in weight loss, TA, firmness, TSS, pulp thickness, and peel thickness. This suggests that using polythene bags as packaging material provides better quality and extends the shelf life of bananas compared to the other materials tested in the study.

In this paper we use a logit model to analyze consumers’ perceptions of health and environmental hazards of pesticides residues in daily consumed vegetables. Perception of health hazards can be predicted by consumers’ age, belief of presence of residues in consumed vegetables, frequency of consumption. Age and gender were found to be the main predictors of consumers’ environmental concerns with female more likely to be concerned.

Rice is one of the most widely used staple foods in the world. However, its production is still very limited compared to the exponentially growing demand. Senegal, with an average consumption of 90 kg/habitant, is the third largest importer of rice in Africa. Aware of the impact of imports on the population, Senegal has set itself the objective of achieving food self-sufficiency by 2022 with an average yield of 5 tonnes/ha. ISRA, through its research, contributes to the achievement of this objective by developing adapted technologies. It is within this framework that a participatory evaluation of 30 new anther culture lines was conducted at the ISRA research station in Fanaye during the hot dry season of 2020. Surveys were conducted among producers through guided tours, while observations and measurements were made to collect agro-morphological parameters and characteristics preferred by producers. The agronomic results analysed and combined with the surveys made it possible to select the 10 best performing varieties. Among these 10 best performing lines, 6 were chosen by the producers. They are KF18134, KF18040, KF18068, KF18103, KF18124, KF18048, KF18005, KF18017, KF18001, KF18024. Crop yield is the first characteristic chosen by the growers. It was followed by short cycle characteristics, panicle load, low bird damage and medium height.

Using of non-protein, nitrogen (NPN) compounds on as alternative. to high-cost protein source, to demonstrate the replacement of pure Yellow corn byproducts with urea added at a rate of 7.17% to the ready-made basic material, for an incubation period of 30 days and its use in basic ratios of 0,10, 22,30 and 39. % replace wheat bran in overweight comments Awassi has succeeded in overcoming difficulties. The results showed that conditioning with urea right a significant increase (p≤0.05) in total protein. Conditioning also a significant increase in the level of urea. The level of masterol triglyceride with the levels of substitution with yellow corn byproducts could not be compared with the control and low substitution levels.