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  Climate And Soils Climate But, for ensuring the development of a profitable and prosperous coconut industry, it is necessary that the likes and dislikes of the palm are given due consideration, particularly when establishing plantation in new regions where it was not grown before. In fact, it is highly adaptable to a variety of environments. The coconut palm is not very fastidious or exacting in its climatic requirements. The coconut palm derives its characteristics from the fact that it is essentially a tropical plant. In these connection factors such as latitude, rainfall, temperature, humidity, sunshine, etc., require detailed consideration. Latitude The coconut palm occurs widespread in the tropics. The six primary centres of coconut cultivation, viz., Philippines, India, Indonesia, Ceylon, South Sea Islands and Malaya which together account for over 90 per cent of the world's total acreage and production of the crop lie in this zone between 20 0 N an...

Become a platelet donor! If you've donated blood before, you know that you've made a tremendous difference for the hospital patients who received your blood. You can take that feeling one step further by donating platelets. Many hospital patients need platelets to survive. By donating platelets, you provide an invaluable gift of life. Why are platelets needed? Blood is made of four components: platelets, plasma, red blood cells and white blood cells. The platelet component is necessary to control bleeding. Patients undergoing chemotherapy and radiation treatments are unable to produce enough platelets. Without platelet transfusions, life-threatening hemorrhages could result. History of plateletpheresis Until recently(page update=year 2000), the only way to collect enough platelets for a single transfusion was to take units of blood given by 5 to 10 donors, separate the platelets from the other blood cells using a centrifuge and combine the platelets. Today, sophisticated medica...