Taipei Farmers Protest at Garlic Prices
Some 300 garlic farmers from Yunlin descended on Government offices in Taipei yesterday to protest at what they said was the government's "suppression of the price of domestic garlic." The Director of the Department of Food and Agriculture, Huang You-tsai, said that garlic had been released from store because two typhoons had inundated the country with torrential rain over the past two weeks causing vegetable prices to skyrocket.
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Indian Garlic Exports Expand
India is the third largest producer of garlic after China and South Korea. Indian production in 2004 was around 500,000 tonnes from 120,000 hectares but, because of import restrictions very little was being exported to neighbouring countries . Now with improvements in local politics exports to Pakistan and Bangladesh have accelerated away and targets for the current year have already been exceeded.
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Pyruvate as a Measure of Garlic Strength

The measurement of pyruvic acid as an indicator of pungency and flavour in both onions and garlic has been employed by a number of workers. The experimental technique employed in this method is a modification of the technique described by Schwimmer et al in which filtered onion juice is reacted with 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine and where the resulting dinitrophenylhydrazones are measured colorimetrically. Read full report

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