Chili pepper (Capsicum spp) are not only used as a flavoring dishes are also useful as appetite. Usefulness appetite is actually stimulated by essential oils when chewed or chili caused by nasal inhalation scent before eaten. Substance contained in chillies capsaicin also stimulates the release of saliva in the mouth and stomach to stimulate digestion [...]

Minister of Forestry, Zulkifli Hasan, trying to maintain 68 percent forest area in Indonesia compared to the mainland. “In a meeting at the Office of the Vice President this morning to discuss the problem of spatial structure, the governors and regents complaining that inhibits the Ministry of Forestry layout,” he said, tonight. Minister of Forestry [...]

The government needs to encourage the development of downstream industries of agriculture and plantation commodities in order to avoid the dominance of commodity buyers Indonesian upstream. “The development of downstream industries in the agricultural and plantation commodities should be pursued. We have a lot of raw materials, such as palm oil, “said Professor Agricultural Economics [...]

Bulog rice stocks in the warehouse has now reached 1.6 million tons. By distributing rice to the poor (Raskin) of 300,000 tonnes / month, that number is more resistant to five months. Bulog President Director Mustafa Abubakar after the inauguration of the Regional Division Chief of Regional Division and Waka Bulog in Jakarta, said last [...]

Tobacco has always attracted strong criticism. For example, you could argue that it was James I of England who in 1603 started the first government anti-smoking campaign, with his famous treatise “A Counterblaste to Tobacco.” Shortly after, James I raised the import duty on tobacco by exactly two thousand percent. His subjects evaded the tax [...]

Clove is the second main ingredient in kretek cigarettes, after tobacco. On the horticultural side, the clove tree is a eucalypt that is indigenous to Indonesia. The clove tree is an evergreen which grows to a height ranging from 10-20 m, with large oval leaves and crimson flowers in numerous groups of terminal clusters. Clove [...]

Red clover is a wild plant that is used for grazing cattle and other animals. It has also been used medicinally to treat a number of conditions. Traditionally, these have included cancer, whooping cough, respiratory problems, and skin inflammations, such as psoriasis and eczema. Red clover was thought to “purify” the blood by acting as [...]

Clove cigarettes are about as “herbal” and “natural” as smoking a filterless Lucky Strike. The types of tobacco used in clove cigarettes (yes, 2/3 of the cigarette is tobacco!) come from Indonesia, and typically have at least, if not more of the tar, nicotine, and carbon monoxide as regular cigarettes. What’s worse, the cloves contain [...]

Possible increase in productivity and expansion of commodity soybean planting areas in the country is wide open. Current level of productivity of soybean farmers average only reached 1.3 tons / ha. Given the level of productivity in research has been able to achieve 1.7 to 3.2 tonnes / ha, then through touch technology, the productivity [...]

STRAWBERRY POINT, Iowa —Things are buzzing at Matt and Jana Hamlett’s dairy farm with less than a week until the couple host the Farm Progress Hay Expo June 16 and 17, west of Strawberry Point along Highway 3. “There are a few things that will be different from 2006,” said Matt. “The dates are earlier [...]