DETROIT – There's a new health warning from doctors about teens searching for a new way to get high. Dr. Frank McGeorge took a look at what they're using and why police are sounding the alarm. Police ...

Betel nut has been closely associated with Bengali culture for ages in stories, chats, entertaining guests or at weddings. Almost every house in the southern region has betel nut trees. It is learned ...

“In our area, there is a scarcity of laborers. The labor cost is also very high. I invented this areca (betel) nut tree-climbing machine to overcome this problem, as it is necessary for us to harvest ...

Betel nut farming has changed the luck of many farmers in Nilphamari district as the crop is more profitable than many others thanks to its nature of giving high yield with little care and handsome ...

Farmers in the northern border district of Lalmonirhat are facing concerns despite a satisfactory yield of betel nuts this season, as market prices remain significantly lower than last year. Locally ...

For years Huang Sheng-yi helped feed Taiwan's addiction to the betel nut, planting thousands of the trees on his mountainous farm. Today he has felled most of them, incentivised by the government to ...

A growing number of farmers in Pirojpur are switching from paddy and other low-yield crops to betel nut, locally known as "supari", attracted by its profitability. Nearly every household across the ...

The women are mostly in their early 20s. They have children at home. Selling betel nut — an addictive, natural chew — to passersby in mountain towns of Papua New Guinea is a good way to earn a living.

(SOUNDBITE) (Kannada) INVENTOR OF TREE CLIMBING SCOOTER, GANAPATHI BHAT, SAYING: “In our area, there is a scarcity of laborers. The labor cost is also very high. I invented this areca (betel) nut tree ...

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