The mature coco de mer nut without its husk sometimes washes up onto beaches. (Credit: Brocken Inaglory/Wikipedia via CNS) AU CAP, Seychelles (AFP) — It is the world's largest seed, and with a shape ...

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It remains a fresh memory. I stared at my grandfather, mesmerized, my five-year-old eyes—big as saucers—watching him expertly shredding a betel nut. The slivers of nut fell into a neat little heap.

Two decades ago, when Shamima Akhter and her husband Mohammad Yousuf started the business of cutting areca nut they had to leave their rented house because the constant noise of the nut-cutter annoyed ...

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