China-Taiwan tensions are now reaching Taiwan's farms. Beijing's growing demand for Taiwanese custard apples is triggering fears in Taipei that agricultural trade could become a tool of political pressure. As concerns grow, officials are urging farmers to diversify exports and reduce reliance on the Chinese market.

China-Taiwan Tensions: Can Fruit Become a Political Weapon?

Papaya seeds, often discarded, are packed with nutrients and offer several health benefits. Here are seven potential benefits of eating papaya seeds.


7 benefits of eating papaya seeds

Life Fun: Discover the benefits of eating papaya daily for a week, including improved digestion, enhanced skin glow, increased immunity, and reduced sweet cravings.

What Happens If You Eat Papaya Every Day for a Week?

A weird prehistoric bird 'Longipteryx', which has a beak filled with ultra-strong teeth, may have been eating fruits and not flesh in China 120 million years ago.

This 'weird' prehistoric bird species ate fruit, not flesh in China, shows fossil analysis

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, heightened attention to our sense of smell has spurred a deeper exploration into olfactory research. Recent studies have shown a remarkable connection between odors and gene expression, extending far beyond the confines of the nasal cavity.

Smell of ripe fruit could stop the growth of cancer cells, study finds

In an astonishing feat of agriculture, scientists have achieved the remarkable milestone of cultivating watermelons in the seemingly inhospitable terrain of Antarctica.

'Chilling' success: Russian scientists cultivate watermelons in the coldest part of Earth

Mango — the ‘King of Fruits’ is one of the most relished fruits in India and while the mango season has arrived, here is a guide on where to get the different varieties of your favourite fruit. Take a look.

As the mango season arrives in India, here's where to get them

A joint study by Tel Aviv University and Jerusalem’s Hebrew University has found the earliest domestication of fruit trees, suggesting that olive and fig horticulture was practised as early as 7000 years ago in the Central Jordan Valley, Israel.

World’s earliest domestication of fruit trees took place 7,000 years ago in Jordan: Study

A British woman has said she hasn't eaten fruit or vegetables in 22 years and claims to be perfectly healthy on a diet of chicken nuggets, fries, and potato chips.

Woman hasn't eaten fruit or vegetables in 22 years, lives on chicken nuggets due to phobia

Countries are reporting a record number of Covid-19 infections, fuelled by the Omicron variant. Governments are shortening quarantine time to simultaneously save lives & the economy. But in China, it's the same old 'infected fruit' debate. Palki Sharma tells you more.

Gravitas: Covid-19 in fruit? China shuts supermarkets

To boost horticulture production in the Kashmir valley, the government is bringing in new scientific techniques and methods to help farmers produce world-class fruits.

In Kashmir’s Budgam, brick kiln owners taking up apple cultivation thanks to govt’s new initiative

In an astonishing discovery, researchers have found wild cockatoos to be using three types of tools as “cutlery” to extract seeds from tropical fruit. The researchers came up with the revelation after studying Goffin’s cockatoos on the Tanimbar Islands, a remote archipelago in Indonesia.

With tools as ‘cutlery’, wild cockatoos extract seeds from tropical fruit

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