Introduction:
Onion is associated with tears. But it brings tears when it is chopped or sliced. But what we see now is ‘no onion’ and ‘no tears’ at home. To be more precise the rising cost of onion brings tears in the eyes of the home-maker. Whether or there is or isn’t onion at home. ‘No onion’ gives ‘no taste’ to carry home recipes in middle class homes and nothing to taste rice or ‘roti’ with about a poor man’s home. The vast majority of populations of the country, perhaps 90 percentages or above are tears with or without onion at home. A consumer finds onions in abundance at wholesale or retail outlets, but shudders to visit the shops at his daily budget is disturbed.
Purchasing power of consumers:
Purchasing one kilogram or half kilogram of onion means cutting on other vegetables for a middle class family; but for a poorer class his butter is gone as bread waits for banishment. Onion and salt constitute a poor man’s butter or recipe, but salt at 14 rupees a kilogram is still affordable, but onion in rupees with 75 not. The cost of onion as an essential item, petrol as a comfort item and beer as a luxury item is in the same rate bracket of 75 rupees per kilogram. Never in India, the above three items were available at the same cost, but now they are. The plight of the common man is unknown and untold and his household is in disarray.
Vanishing items:
Of course, inflation is not confined to onion alone. The past few years have seen a gradual rise in the price of all vegetables and consumable items. Milk, meat, fish, fruits and vegetables have been giving us a painful experience owing to the incessant rise of prices. The cost of food grains is sky-rocketing. The crocodile tears shed by the leaders and the government and all their assurances have meant nothing as the plight of people is better forgotten than told. No concrete, effective steps are in the offering. The government has lost all its control over the sale and supply and distribution of food grains. The break-less and rake-less monopoly market system has snatched away the balanced diet of consumer’s dish. The onion is fresh addition to this long list of vanishing items.
We have seen temporary shortages and scarcities in the past owing to flood or famine or other natural calamities. But rising costs year after year with consistent increase in the price of commodities reveal that there is something somewhere which drives the country to a situation of abundant availability without proper purchasing powers with the consumers whose bagful of currency notes is not going to fetch him a bagful of food grains. Year after year, the country has been creating new records in food grain production with more agro-scientific methods of cultivation. The ordinary man fails to understand as to why there is price escalation despite our farmers giving us bountiful of agricultural produces.
Statistics:
A shade more than one crore ton of onion is the universal requirement of our country every year. Our country has exceeded the requirement target every time during the past four years with 1.20, 1.50, 1.50 and 1.70 crore tons of onion production in 2008-09, 2009-10, 2010-11 and 2011-12 respectively. Excessive production of onion has given a boost to our export earnings from Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia, etc. So, scarcity is not a factor, but mismanagement and monopoly certainly are. On one side, a farmer makes a distressed sale of onion at rupees six to ten a kilogram and the other the market price is rupees 70 pluses. This is perplexing and worrisome.
Storage problems and hoarding of traders:
Natural calamities and excessive rainfall have reduced onion production by 4 percentages to 4.5 percentages this year. This justifies a marginal increase up to 20 percentages to 25 percentages during monsoon, but it hardly justifies five to six times of increase in cost. This makes us to believe that the crisis is man-made. This is a conspiracy against consumers on behalf of traders and hoarders to garner bulging profits with artificial scarcity and clamor. They are looting the farmers and consumers alike. The two-fold problem experienced in the country is in the matter of storage problem and hoarding of traders. Of all the onions produced in the country, 60 percentages are produced in the rabi season and the rest of kharif season. The kharif onion is rain fed and its market availability is in September-October of the year. Its storage period is short and for this these onions are kept in cold storage.
Lack of adequate cold-storage facility in onion-producing area destroys the product. Seeing the plight of farmers, businessmen and traders exploit them with purchases at a very low price and keep the purchases in frozen storage, creating an artificial scarcity in the market. The rabi-onion comes to the market during January-February and the intervening period of two-three months is dominated by hoarders and traders who sell the cold-storage onions at exorbitant costs. With business tycoons like Ambani’s, Spencer’s, Big Bazaar, Reliance Fresh entering the food market, the vanishing act of consumable items has become complete. These malls hoard the produces in their godowns, and cold storages and control the market as never before. In the name of the regulated market, they have commercialized the agricultural produces, the cost of which has gone up since their entry into the arena. These big companies are responsible for escalating costs of commodities in a big way.
Conclusion:
Ultimately, the solution to this problem is a problem itself. The government can hardly control the big houses as it is itself under their control. Sooner or later, this monopoly has to end so as to put a curtain on this plight of the customers. A conducive situation and environment should be created by the government to facilitate the farmers to save their produces to the government directly at affordable support prices. More and more of warehouses and cold storages should be should be set up by government, so that farmers can keep their produces at ‘no cost’ or ‘nominal-cost’. An efficient public distribution system with ease the lives of the consumers an availability coupled with fair price will encourage farmers to boost productivity. Only then, there will be ‘onion and onion tears’ and no ‘no-onion’ tears.
Every human being on this planet loves to eat ice creams. Some eat in cups , some in cones.
Let us learn how ice cream cones are made.
Materials required:
Dark brown sugar, caramel colouring, flavouring ingredients, ice cold water, flour and vegetable oil.
Procedure to make cones:
To start of with the preparation, add dark brown sugar into a blender. Then add caramel colouring in appropriate
and correct measurement. Then add flavouring ingredients. Now, add ice cold water into the blender so that the mixture
becomes not too sticky. Addition of ice cold water is necessary because if normal water is added then mixure
might become sticky and there will be problems in preparing the cones.
Once adequate amount of water is added into the blender , mix all ingredients using the blender. Computer system
is designed to add flour into the mixture. Using this system, flour is added into the blender using the tank which
is placed above the blender. Add vegetable oil into the mixture only after all ingredients are mixed. Now, mix oil
added with the mixture and then add the mixture into refrigerated tank. At this moment, the batter can be said to
be ready for making pan cake.
This batter is then passed on through the nossils with predefined amounts of batter. Nossils put measured amounts
of batter on baking plates that keeps on moving at regular intervals, say about every 3 seconds. Once, batter is placed
over baking plates, another plate from top is placed over the batter. Then these plates along with batter moved into gas
heated oven for a quick bake. once, batter passes the gas heated oven, the top plates are lifted up automatically,
and then these semi solid batter is passed onto rollers , which give these batters a shape of cone. Then as these
cones are hot, these cones are then passed onto open elevators to cool and harden.
Once these cones comes to a normal temperature, these are then passed over conveyor where a paper in the shape of cone
is kept by the machine after every 2 seconds as a cover for the cone. Then technician use a machine to test the
breaking point of the cone and to ensure that how much harder ice creams these cones can hold. Then in sugar cone
department, small patch type of cone is prepared but it is not turned into shape of cone. It is then applied
to the cone as a patch which increases its capacity to hold harder ice-creams.
Once this patch is applied, packers start filling the packets of cones and then dispatched to the market.
Everyone like to home decorating both for comfort and for status. People pay adequate time and money for home remodeling and find pleasure in accomplishing the same. Retro bedroom furniture gives a beautiful look to the bedroom and marks the difference with those of others. This kind of furniture has been popular among the consumers for years and still has managed to be the hot picks of the people for bedroom decoration. This is the reason why retro bedroom furniture finds a place in most of the bedrooms even today. The furniture come in a variety of designs and color to the satisfaction of the consumers.
Various medium to dark colors like orange, light red or pink as per the needs and requirements of the customers can be found in the market. There are several designs of the retro bedroom furniture to choose from and one cannot resist the temptation of buying the desired designed retro furniture. In addition the layout, the look the materials from which the furniture has been manufactured and the finish, all go to persuade the customers buy the retro bedroom furniture and many people are regular consumers of retro furniture. Moreover the furniture is durable as well to last longer. Adding sheets and curtains will give your furniture a professional and attractive look to the pride of the owner.
Shopping the sheets and curtains with good brands add sheen to the furniture. The colorful designs and the cozy feel of the sheets and curtains add to the comfort of the furniture and give a feeling of persona. The light weighted soft sheets with colorful designs make the furniture more attractive to envy others. Moreover the furniture is durable.
Thus anyone looking for remodeling bedroom furniture will find retro furniture to be most appropriate to the fullest satisfaction of the buyers.
हम आजकल ये बात हमेशा सुनते आ रहें है वो है ''मेहेंगाई डायन | '' सचमुच मेहेंगाई ने तो लोगों का दम तोड़ दिया है | कोई चीज खरीदें तो कैसे |रोटी कपड़ा मकान ये जरुरत कि चीजे मिलाना मुश्किल होता जा रहा है | उसमें लोगोंको रहत मिलाती है जब वह कोई चीज डिस्काउंट में मिलनेकी खबर सुनते है | लोगोंको आकर्षित करनेका ये जालिम उपाय व्यापारजगत ने ढूंढ़ निकला है | लोग भी ललचा जाते है | जो चीज वह खरीदना चाहते थे वही उन्हें सस्ते दमोमें मिलरही होती है |
इस डिस्काउंट से जादातर महिलाएं प्रभावित होती है | उन्हें लगता है मानो कोई खजाना हाथ आया | साडी हो या जेवर ,असली हो या नकली ,छोटा हो या बड़ा ------डिस्काउंट जरुर मिलाना चाहिए किसपर कितना डिस्काउंट मिलाता है ,आज कहाँ पार डिस्काउंट मिलरह है यह जानकारी नाकी महिलाए पर पुरुषोने भी रखनी शुरू की है | बाप तो बाप बच्चे भी ये जानकारी रखते है | कुलमिलाकर डिस्काउंट से सभी प्यार करते है |
आज कल घरेलु सामान ,कपड़ा ,जेवर ,खिलौने से लेकर कार ,घर ,इलेक्ट्रोनिक कि छोटी से लेकर बड़ी चिजोंपर डिस्काउंट ऑफर मिलाता है | खरीदनेवाला खुश -----------बेचनेवाला खुश तथा बनानेवाली कंपनी खुश | बाजार चीजोंसे भरा पड़ा है | कितना परसेंट डिस्काउंट मिल रहा है उसके अनुसार लोगोंकी जेबे खाली होती है | असली कीमत क्या होगी यह सोचविचार करने का समय किसीके पास नहीं | लोग भर भर के सामान खरीदते है
सोच विचार के बाद यह नतीजा निकलता है कि सभी छोटे बड़े ,औरत मर्द , युवक युवती ,आमिर गरीब खरीदारी सबको पसंद आती है ,वो भी अगर ''सस्ते दमोंमे मिले तो सोने पै सुहागा |'' डिस्काउंट १०% से लेकर ५०% तक होता है | जो भी हो खरीदार के मुताबिक वह चीज उसे कमकिमत पर मिलरही होती है और ये मुनाफे का सौदा वह छोड़ना नही चाहता है |
Thai silk comes from China - in the sense that for the first time this fabric began to spin it in China about 4700 years ago. Then, and China, then no more was not. But people have learned how to grow the larvae of the silkworm and unwinding the thread from their cocoons. Later, thousands of years later, silk came to China around the country - in Thailand and India.
In Thailand, silk spun in different regions of the country, but mainly in the north - near the cities of Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai (where there are large silk factories). Silk is very popular in these places, although it is a cloth for the rich, and therefore in great demand not use it. But this applies only to the domestic market. Travel Thai silk coveted acquisition. We are also talking about clothes of high quality, natural and very healthy tissue. By the way - the constant use of silk bed linen prolongs youth. And it's not rumors or beliefs, as set by medical fact. Like that clothing made from silk enhances the quality of life, as it enhances feelings of human, makes our daily lives more comfortable. Silk sharpens sensitivity and perception of life. In short - it's cloth.
Where to buy? Where silk is sold - from markets, ending the Eastern fashion boutiques. Guarantee that the fabric will be very natural, not allow anyone. Therefore, the forgery can run up and in a respectable shop and at the evening market ... For some reason we have decided that the surest option is a specialized silk shop. The choice is huge. Can not be that among the dozens of kinds of fabrics and garments that are sold here, there is room fraud. Or fake everything, or ... nothing. Logical? We took a chance. And today, a year after the acquisition can tell - we bought an all-natural silk fabric.
Where we found this shop? Please - Pattaya, very beginning of the Second ROAD (Second Street), when viewed from south to north (ie from Jomtien). A number of shops on the right side of the street ... Yes, there is only a few silk shops. One just selling fakes - because the product is very cheap and kind of a "pop". In another store of Indian goods (and trader in the Indian sari). We have this store too bypassed. "Our" shop located in the middle (if memory serves).
Initially, there was no trust him. Went smoothly from nothing to do - to view the indifferent gaze of Indian goods in the shop ... But something was still hooked. What is it? It is hard to say ... Have you ever seen a heavy, almost oily sheen of precious gold? That shine at which accurately allocate the real thing among cheap jewelry crafts? This is what happened here. Natural silk exuded warmth. He mysteriously gleaming in the dull light. And the touch was cool and unusually mild - although the fabric was quite thick.
Thick shades of carmine fabric and raging gold details. Gold ornaments scattered on a red background. And it was all ... beautiful. Not so bright to be seen as kitsch. But not dull, not to hold the attention.
We began asking prices. How to understand that we are not dealing with a fake? We were lucky - my companion in the school years've grown larvae of silkworm cocoons and then hand over to the factory. She knew she should look like natural silk fabric.
The first thing that you should pay attention - to shine. Silk has a unique luster. Shimmer in the light fibers so that you can not accurately determine what color they are. The fabric can be scarlet, and the fibers at the same sparkle as the threads of some unknown precious material. Rayon always pours a white glow.
The second - the natural tissue is not always perfect. A close examination easily detected by a thickening, tiny nodules, bumps. Silk thread - it is a living thread protein of natural origin. Rayon always perfectly smooth. His foundation - the thread of polyester. Hand-woven rayon do not, it is always factory production.
Another criterion - price. Natural silk can not be cheap. When the initial value of women's robe (short, small size) of 900 baht, we make a deal thing for 700, but bought just three coat on an adult woman and a silk suit on a 3-year old child. Battle for the discount was serious. In the next shop, where forgery traded, we would have got rid of baht to 200, and sometimes less.
Well, if the auction is delayed, but doubts still overwhelmed, you can ask the seller a thread of the tissue from which the gown is stitched. Natural silk to flame lighters lit, as virgin wool - with the same characteristic odor, leaving the ash. Artificial thread in combustion emits black smoke - such as plastic...