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While the sweet and juicy watermelon is full of nutrition, did you know that the seeds of this fruit are also beneficial?

A rich source of iron, potassium, and vitamins, these seeds are great for your health, skin and hair. So, chew on the watermelon seeds or use their oil, the next time you gorge on this fruit.

Good for your heart:
A rich source of magnesium, the seeds help in maintaining normal heart functioning, blood pressure and support metabolic processes. They can also treat cardiovascular diseases and hypertension.
Control diabetes:
Boiling a handful of watermelon seeds in water and drinking this liquid every day like tea is said to control your blood sugar levels.
Moisturise skin:
Containing unsaturated fatty acids, the seeds help keeping your skin moisturised.
Delay ageing:
Due to their antioxidant properties, eating these seeds can make your skin look younger and healthier.
Clear acne:
Take a swab of cotton and apply watermelon seed oil on your face to remove the dirt and sebum from your skin as well as clean the pores. Suitable for all skin types, this oil also helps treat skin infections.
Strengthen your hair
: Due to a high content of protein and essential amino acids, eating watermelon seeds can strengthen your hair. Also, having roasted watermelon seeds can add shine to your hair as they contain copper that produces melanin, a pigmenvt that provides colour to your hair.
Treat itchy scalp:
Since watermelon seed oil is light in texture, it gets absorbed easily without clogging the pores of your scalp. It acts as a moisturiser for your dry and flaky scalp.
Prevent hair breakage:
Providing your hair with essential fatty acids, consuming the seeds regularly can help prevent breakage

Now we know. Lets eat right and stay healthy.

felixzo1: [color=#006600][/color]For two weeks, (26th September - 8 October) entrepreneurs from all over the world converged at the permanent site of the Abuja International Trade Fair complex along Airport road to meet buyers and sellers with their products.
From Asia, South Korea, India, Japan and China manufacturers and dealers displayed their industrial and household products. While from Africa, Ghanaians were on hand with their fabrics to attract their Nigerian admirers.
Our reporter visited the agro-allied stands of the trade fair and recounts some of the machines agro companies displayed for Nigerian farmers to buy. These equipment range from small to heavy-duty machines for both small and large scale farmers.
At the Myra Agro Allied and Machinery, authorized distributors of Goyum Screw press, an Indian company in Nigeria, various products were displayed for sale. These machineries include rice miller with capacity to process four metric tons per hour. The machines come in different sizes with their prices depending on capacity.
Another machine available was De-stoner. The function of this machine is to remove stones from the milled rice to make it safer for consumption. The De-stoner is a solution to the problem of stones in our local rice, which makes it inferior to the foreign or imported variety. With De-stoner, the dichotomy between local and foreign rice will no longer be an issue for Nigerians.
Other machines displayed were Groundnut Decorticator, which processes 3 tons per hour; Palm Nut cracker which cracks and removes palm kernel from the shell. Also displayed for sale were an array of oil milling machinery and equipment, which can extract oil from various seeds, the least of which can process five tons per day. The company also has - although not in display at the stand - a continuous type refinery which has the capacity to process more than 25 metric tons per day.
At the Kingdom Aquarium and Fisheries stand, there were polygon fish ponds of different capacities. The least takes up to 2,000 fingerlings. The least size of the round fish ponds is 5.5 feet diameter by 2 feet height, whereas the biggest size is 12 feet by 24 feet by 4 feet height.
These polygon fish ponds also come with Spraying Aerator which is floating for oxygen; and Splash Aerator - a powerful oxygenation aerator. These aerators help in the rapid growth of fish.
The company also displayed various types of feed pellet machines, which can be driven by diesel or gasoline engines. It can press soybean powder, cereals powder, potatoes powder and other agriculture powder into pellets. Others include the Hammer Mills, which can grind agricultural plants such as soybeans, peanuts, corn or wheat into powder.
Dae Sung Agricultural Machinery, a South Korean company was also on hand at the trade fair ground with an array of agro allied processing machines. They have a set of rice milling machines comprising of rice steam boiler, which can parboil or steam your rice to give you an even degree of parboiled rice before milling using charcoal, firewood, rice chaff, diesel, kerosene or electricity. Rice dryer for paddy rice, barley, wheat and corn and rice mill of 150 kilograms, 300 kilograms and 800 kilograms.
It also has silos for drying and storing farm crops protecting them from moisture and pests. This equipment has a capacity of storing 20 to 120 metric tons of assorted crops. Rice ripper was also on display. The machine helps farmers to harvest rice by pushing it through the rice farm. It can be used for tilling the ground using rotary implement before planting.
Other agricultural machines were Multiple Grains Thresher for maize, beans, millet, guinea corn and sesame with capacity of 1.5 metric tons per hour; yam and cassava processor and beans and rice de-stoner, which removes stones from the products; and Farm Crop Dryer for drying fish, meat, cassava, yam, potatoes, tomatoes, pepper, and other agricultural products.
The Abuja International Trade Fair, which ended last week, afforded many small, medium and large scale commercial farmers in the country the opportunity to exchange ideas with investors and experts on the application and use of agro-allied machinery for the modern farming system.

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MANGAM: Day 10 and counting

Hello
How about starting with this type of improved seedlings.....

levisco16: Just incase any of you is using etisalat. On your android phone:
Monthly Plan: Dial *499*3# or Send COM to
399, costs N1000 its 3GB

op, does it need any tweaking?
How long have u used it?
What device are u using?

Following and my small backyard garden fully activated.
My ten ridges are ready. Planting tomorrow morning. Rained slightly just now. I thought i should plant today but events overshadowed my plans. Op and others, i say thanks for d exposition. I will keep u posted.

Op, wheres your location?

For cheap parts and availability, they are both similar.
But for realiabilty and fuel economy, You cant just compare like that. Try and be specific.
For your info, golf 3 has four types of engine capacities, 1.6,1.8, 2.0 And 2.9vr6. There is even a 4X4 version of golf 3

front page material.
Eat right, stay healthy.
If u can, plant atleast four of this fruits in ur environment.

Vanpascore: Weldone OP, I love this thread and i say kudos to you. In addition pls, those of you asking for where to get d seed, u can buy a big water melon, cut into two and keep it somewhere for 3-4 days to ferment, get the seed there, wash with water to separate the seed from d decayed rubbish and sun dry as directed by the OP

DO NOT PLANT THE SEED THAT HAS MIXED WITH SALIVA, IT WILL NOT GROW.

Wow
The part in CAPS is interesting.
But how well should the seeds be sun-dryed?

So?

EnterPRO: updated :

Hello All,


updated

U sold mtn 500mb for N750 yesterday, why?

Why should a training on grasscutter Farming be rushed within a day? Na wa o.
Note: he never replies serious enquires, only wants ur gate fees! be careful with your monies, especially if u r far from his farm.

HELP! My n3 can only be charged from a laptop usb port, no other charger works , even original tecno n3 charger cant do it. Any possible solutions?

yeah, nairaland will soon start buying over google inc.

wow. This opens a new dimension. Bh is everyones nightmare now, you dont need a paris conference before you play a role. What goes round round comes back around. The response of the french/cameroonians will be a game changer in this war against slave raiders/jihadist.
Btw: this fake 'shekau' is a damn deadlier!

the most useless thread ever opened on politics section . From a pathological lair and Shameless op, sincere9girian u fall my hand too. Take a humble pie and admit u were misled.

ugo4u: The soldiers really had a field day using this guyz as shooting practice the shots on the dead bodies are incredible pin point and laser guided accuracy mostly @ d fore head and left side of the chest... ABU teaching hospital don get enof bodies for teaching practice. OP sharply move this thread to front page asap to inform people especially travellers situation on ground.

no matter what, human life is human life, your sentiment towards these unfortunate lost souls is misplaced. Lets exercise some sense of civility for Gods sake, we nigerians havent descended as low as wild animals
edit...... The op or ugo4u is a proven chronic lair with indentity crisis. Ignore him, he isnt a military cadet but just a faceless jingoist out to give the army a bad image.

Below are some of his links....
ttp://www.nairaland.com/1461188/what-did-
study-where-working/1#18500243
Oct 25, 2013
https://www.nairaland.com/1407543/bitter-
experience-living-landlords/2#19089543
Dec 31, 2013
https://www.nairaland.com/1574724/nairalander-
board-nns#20571038
Jan 01, 2014
https://www.nairaland.com/1576993/sos-4rm-
heartbroken-nairalander#20612321
Rep Your Church
https://www.nairaland.com/1820410/rep-
church/7#24827777i

delta's 16 years calamity will end next year, gov if u like commission bus stops

great NEWS, For employment generation, increased gdp, steady industrailization and national pride. We need more of these. Kudos to aganga, NOI, Fg and CO.

where does he get his statistics from?

good move

SiriusBlack: Soldiers Arrive at Village ravaged by Boko Haram..

these villagers seem to be at the mercy of these terrorist vampires, i think they should be given satellite phones, for alerting the NA and intel gathering. the phones should be bugged and gps trackable, just in case it falls into enemy hands.

SiriusBlack: SOME GOOD NEWS: BESIEGED TROOPS AT DELWA HAVE FINALLY BROKEN OUT..OVER 60 INSURGENTS KILLED....more info on the way...

glory be to God.
kudos to my gallant brothers. this is the greatest news of the year.

oduastates: Who told you all your clueless presidents want a police force /Military manned by graduates.
How many times have we heard,

"Him grammar too much"
"Na dat one we go chop"

Zombie be o zombie .
Zombie no go talk unless you tell am to talk.
Your thieving politician only want zombies.

It is no fluke that state police and regimental army were park of the SW Positions.
It is a pain to see one of the most disciplined police force in this part of the work(the western region constabulary) be replaced by thugs and nincompoops who mostly have no roots in odua states .

are u really from SW? they reason far better than this!

good idea but completely not applicable.
there will be no equal representation of states. a single state like delta, anambra or ogun will have more qualified officers than 11 northern states combined. OP must be from mars.

shocking

man wey sabi!