![]() Honey Turmeric Chicken - sticky, savory and sweet honey chicken marinated with turmeric and cooked on skillet. Quick and easy dinner in 15 minutes. BEST TURMERIC RECIPES Recently I read it online that turmeric is a super food that does wonders to our health. The yellow color root belongs to the ginger family and is anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant, has wound healing and other medicinal benefits. It’s one of my favorite spices; it imparts an exotic taste, wonderful fragrance and aromas to protein such as chicken. This honey turmeric chicken is a great recipe to introduce you to turmeric. The chicken is moist, juicy, delicious, golden in color, with an intense aroma and absolutely mouthwatering. INGREDIENTS
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CORONA VIRUS (COVID-19 ) has infected over millions people worldwide and the death toll stands over 100,000. I have been recommending people not to treat themselves at home, and to make sure that they get tested. Unfortunately, the reality on the ground has changed drastically. The hospitals are overwhelmed, especially in the US, and they are only testing patients with severe symptoms. At this point, we also have enough data from around the world to determine what has and hasn't worked in treating this virus. Considering the fact, most people with mild symptoms will not be received at the hospital, and that we have some data on what has worked thus far, I have put together a 'Home Treatment Kit' of sorts. You really want to pay attention to this and make sure you have these at home, just to be on the safe side. Let's hope for the best, yet prepare for the worst. This is what you should have in your Home Treatment Kit: Vitamin C 1000mg Vitamin D3 5000IU or 125mcg Zinc Picolinate 50mg Spearmint/Peppermint/Eucalyptus essential oil Carob Molasses Honey (Trigona ^ Kelulut or Manuka) Black seeds or Black seed oil (Nigella Sativa) Sea salt or Himalayan salt Lemon Paracetamol / Tylenol / Calpol / Panadol Stay safe and stay indoors! STAY @ HOME Last September, Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad called for more research on plants that can be nurtured and grown to become successful industries, similar to palm oil and rubber.Oil palm and rubber trees, he noted, came from foreign countries but have since become major export commodities for the nation.
“Research in more plants could yield even more use for other plants that we can grow in this country,” Dr Mahathir said. This is clear direction from the top on the need to revisit our approach to agriculture, with the aim of providing farmers with more solutions to generate good income. The need for crop diversification was reiterated last March by Primary Industries Minister Teresa Kok, who suggested that smallholders consider bamboo, pineapples and coconuts as alternative crops for supplementary income. To which we can now add another interesting agricultural idea: rearing of stingless bees — the subject of a conference recently convened by the International Institute of Plantation Management (IIPM) in Kota Kinabalu. In his opening speech, Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Seri Madius Tangau said the stingless bees industry is an emerging new source of income for farmers and that Sabah’s state government would help them meet the increasing market demand for honey-based products. According to IIPM’s Fellow, Prof Mohamad Osman, a senior associate at Atri Advisory, while honey bees need no introduction, stingless bees are still quite unknown to most people. They are known locally as lebah kelulut (genus Heterotrigona, family Apidae — and a close relative to common honey bees). So what are the differences between honey bees and stingless bees? The world over, there are thousands of species of bees, most of them of a solitary species. Like honey bees, stingless bees are social insects which live in large, well organised hives or colonies. While a honey bee stings as a way to defend against predators, stingless bees have highly reduced stingers that cannot be used for defence. They are, therefore, generally harmless to humans. The hive wall of the stingless bees is made of propolis (from a resinous substance collected from tree buds) whereas honey bees’ hives are made of wax. Stingless bees thrive in most tropical or subtropical regions and there are over 500 species, 78 of them found in Malaysia, but only a few of them can produce honey. Honey bees produce a lot more honey (up to 27 times more) than lebah kelulut and the honey is sweeter, but lebah kelulut are more resistant to diseases and parasites that affect honey bees. In Sabah, farmers are paid RM30 and RM60 per kg of bee and lebah kelulut honey, respectively. In the market, lebah kelulut honey fetches a higher price — more than RM120 per kg. Mohamad noted that beyond its reputation as a “super food”, honey and propolis can be used in cosmetics, pharmaceuticals and other health products. To date, lebah kelulut are largely farmed for their honey, which contributes RM200 million annually to the economy. Sarawak currently ranks highest in production, followed by Sabah and Peninsular Malaysia. Entrepreneur Tan Chung Chuan, with 15 years of experience in bee farming, is an industry role model. His company purchases close to 10 tonnes of honey monthly from farmers rearing 30,000 colonies across the country, which he markets throughout Malaysia and in China. Stingless bees are also great pollinators, but to date have literally not been harnessed for the purpose locally. Field research has documented stingless bees as field crop pollinators in 12 tropical countries worldwide. At the Kota Kinabalu conference, Jinius Jipanin of the Agricultural Research Station in Tenom highlighted his invaluable innovation using a “twin exit apparatus” (TEA) to both sustain the lebah kelulut colony, and to effectively provide pollination for brinjal (eggplant) crops under nethouse conditions. “Among the greatest commercial potential of stingless bees is as crop pollinators,” said Tim Heard, former research scientist at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Australia. Stingless bees have short flight ranges of about 500 metres, making it easier to keep them among crops for pollination — compared with honey bees which have a flight range of 2km. “You have a fantastic stingless wonder here in Malaysia,” said Cristiano Menezes, bee biology and bee management researcher from the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation. “In Brazil, stingless bees have already transcended into a highly profitable pet industry for the population!” Little wonder then that stingless bees are a potential natural treasure trove for agriculture and they are fast creating a buzz amongst our farmers. But there is a prerequisite to a productive lebah kelulut industry: preserving our forests and harvesting the bees in a sustainable manner — something that is not adequately happening in this country. Major issues currently faced by the lebah kelulut industry include oversupply, adulteration or fakery and lack of quality standards. Fix them, exclaimed Mohamad, and Malaysia may see the industry soar to RM350 million in the near future. The writer has returned to farming after retirement, having received a diploma in agriculture from the then College of Agriculture (now Universiti Putra Malaysia) in 1969 Sources : NSTP (19 August 2019) ![]() They are just three to five millimetres in size each but the tiny kelulut (stingless bees) or meliponines hold huge potential of making Malaysia a major player in the global honey market. The bees are much more docile than the ordinary honey bee and can be easily bred on a large scale, said Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT) scientist Assoc Prof Dr Wan Iryani Wan Ismail.The lecturer with the Faculty of Science and Marine Environment said the pain, if any, from the sting is negligible and had no side effect. Anyone – even women and children – can get involved in stingless bee farming. It is estimated that there are between 750 and 1,000 people nationwide engaged in this kind of bee farming, and Prof Wan Iryani is optimistic the kelulut honey business can grow into a huge industry over the next 10 years.She headed the committee that drew up the National Kelulut Honey Industry Development Plan 2020-2030 that aims to make the kelulut honey industry a new source of stable and sustainable income. Prof Wan Iryani said the stingless bees bred in Malaysia were from the local species and as such, farmers did not have to import bees and could reduce their overall costs. “Many of our honey bee breeders obtain their resources from abroad, from countries such as Taiwan and Australia. This has its inherent issues. When we import the bees, we also import the problems as well such as the diseases, ” she added. Read more news at The STAR 25/2/2020 ![]() Industri ternakan kelulut di Malaysia berpotensi mencapai anggaran jualan maksimum sebanyak RM3.03 bilion setahun sekiranya industri terbabit terus dikembangkan dan dimajukan. Pensyarah Fakulti Perniagaan, Ekonomi dan Pembangunan Sosial Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT), Prof Dr Nur Azura Sanusi berkata, jumlah itu berdasarkan anggaran pengambilan madu kelulut oleh setiap rakyat Malaysia iaitu sebanyak 330 gram dalam tempoh setahun. Ketika ini, jumlah pasaran yang sudah dicapai dalam industri kelulut negara hanya RM33.6 juta, sedangkan potensi pasaran yang boleh diteroka sebenarnya jauh lebih tinggi iaitu RM67.2 juta. Read more : Metro News Artikel ini disiarkan pada : Selasa, 3 Mac 2020 |
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