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How to improve our scientific communication skill in Agriculture research?

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Scientific communication skills include reading, writing and oral presentation. For students studying agricultural science, scientific communication skills always play an important role because agriculture is a science and technical subject; where we have to write reports, thesis and to give presentation in scientific level.  Therefore, I am discussing here how can we improve each of the communication skills for agricultural science.  A. Reading skill When we write thesis, research reports and research proposal, we have to find scientific papers and read it. What is the current trend is, find random paper and 'copy and paste' the lines or phrases where it match to your writing. But it is wrong, we have to find the research papers first and then there are few tips to do better reading 1. Skimming  We have many more papers to read therefore, we can not always manage to read whole papers at all time. Therefore, we should be able to skim. Skimming include reading abstract, result,

How to apply for agriculture studies in Australia?

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There are many Universities in Australia which are recognized for better agriculture studies. Many of Nepalese students always seek better universities and institutes every year for higher studies in Australia. Some of the students make the way to Australia and many of other undulate between this and that and here and there because of not having proper and right information. So, I am here giving you information about how Nepalese students can apply in Australian Universities for agriculture studies Education system in Australia Australia has two different options for international students to pursue either undergraduate (bachelor) and postgraduate (masters) degree. Is you do not want to do thesis and research you can choose 'By course' option and if you are interested for research and thesis then you can choose 'By research option' for same degree in Australia.  How to apply for 'By course' option? 'By course' option is for core theoretical study in the

Best tips to improve your powerpoint presentation skill

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Technical students have many presentation of their research, reports, methods and results. To make our technical presentation more qualitative, impressive and interesting, we have to take care of certain points while making our powerpoints. Powerpoint is one of the common program for making these type of presentations. Therefore, I am discussing here the important tips for making quality powerpoints for technical presentations Selecting background In professional and technical presentation, we have to be cautious selecting background colour in MS powerpoint. The background should be very clear and plain. In most of the cases it s recommended to use white plain background because texts will be clearly visible in white background. Furthermore we can use black background as well, however, we have to select contrasting text colour, for instant in white background black text would be contrasting and vice-versa.  Selecting text colour In technical presentation we should be cautious selecting

The spices and herbs: Unique identity of Nepal can go an economic agri-business

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Nepal is rich in food diversity; people eat many foods with many different ways of cooking them. Though we have different types of food and different ways of cooking, the most important that never goes missing is spices. A range of local herbs and some perennial plants are commonly used as a spice for flavoring and taste enhancing the foods. The mostly consumed spices ranges are cumin, coriender, turmeric, zinger, garlic, cloves, black pepper, cardamom and bay leaves; silimarly the most common herbs are mints, panch aule, gurjo and many more. The use of these spices are inheriting from our ancestors since long and long ago.  Unknowningly we are using these types of spice from long time ago, however, people are realizing the importance of these spices. Image: Spices of Nepal A. Spices have health benefits Many spices we use in our daily life have multiple health benefits such as protecting heart health, boosting immunity, skin health and eye health. The unique identity of the himalays a