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Re:Do you know, that..... 9 Months, 3 Weeks ago
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The origin of bananas is placed in Southeast Asia, in the jungles of Malaysia, Indonesia or Philippines, where so many varieties of wild bananas still grow at present.
Do you know that:
After rice, wheat and milk, it is the fourth most valuable food ?
In export, it ranks fourth among all agricultural commodities and is the most significant of all fruits, with world trade totaling $2.5 billion annually. Yet, only 10% of the annual global output of 86 million tons enters international commerce. Much of the remaining harvest is consumed by poor subsistence farmers in tropical Africa, America and Asia. For most of the latter producers, banana and plantain (which is a type of banana) are staple foods that represent major dietary sources of carbohydrates, fiber, vitamins A, B6 and C, and potassium, phosphorus and calcium.
http://www.apsnet.org/education/feature/banana/
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Do you know that:
Without the yak, which exists nowhere else in the world,
Tibet would be uninhabited?
The animal is resistant to extreme cold, -30 or -40°.
The nights in winter do not frighten the yak even in high winds.
It provides everything = meat, milk of which
one makes butter and oil for lamps,
the long hair is useful for making ropes,
clothing, blanquets and tents,
dung is used as fuel, to boil the tea
as it does not give enough calories to heat
either a house or a tent.
The yak is useful as a pack animal,
sure footed in mountainous regions.
From the east of Tibet, to reach China,
it is necessary to cross nearly 2000km of desert
in the north and iced wooded mountains in the south...
Certain places are so inaccessibles
that one expects to find there the most hidden tribes
of Pygmies in the world.
Without the yak, which exists nowhere else in the world, the country would be uninhabit
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