Pomegranate Farming Guide

Pomegranate is a table fruit that is grown in tropical and sub-tropical regions of the globe. Pomegranate fruit is one of the most popular, nutritionally rich fruit with unique flavor, taste and medicinal properties. The pomegranate tree is also grown as an ornamental plant which produces very attractive red flowers. Commercial cultivation of Pomegranate is very much successful in most of the Asian countries. This plant is hardy in nature and has very low maintenance cost with high yielding potential and has versatile adaptability. Pomegranate belongs to the family of "Lythraceae" and genus of "Punica". Pomegranate is originated from Iran and spread across the world. Currently Pomegranate is widely cultivated throughout the Middle East and Caucasus region, North Africa and tropical Africa, the Indian subcontinent, Central Asia. To read more about pomegranate farming: Click Here

Cucumber Farming Guide

Cucumber is one of the famous and a widely cultivated vegetable plant and belongs to the gourd family of "Cucurbitaceae", genus of "Cucumis". This is basically a creeping vine that bears cylindrical fruits that are used as vegetables. Oils extracted from cucumber seeds are used for medicinal purpose. Slicing, pickling & burpless are the three main varieties of cucumber cultivated across the globe and within these varieties, several different cultivars have been emerged in the market. The cucumber is originated from Southern Asia. However, it is grown in all of the countries in the world.To read more about cucumber farming Click Here.

Almond Farming Guide

Almond is a very famous and energy provider dry fruit which is mostly cultivated in Middle east and South Asia. The almond  is a species of tree native to the South Asia & Middle Eastern regions. Almond belongs to the family of "Rosaceae" and genus of "Prunus". Usually, the almond tree is a deciduous and reaches up to 10 meters in height, with a trunk of up to 30 to 35 cm in diameter. The almond fruit is a actually a drupe not a nut botanically, consisting of an outer hull and a hard shell with the seed inside. Generally almonds are sold shelled or unshelled. Almonds can also be used in cooking and also to produce oil. Commercial cultivation of almonds is very much successful in Asian countries due to their nutrition values and health benefits and local market as well as export value. Almond milk, almond flour, almond syrup, almond oil is some of the alternate uses of almonds. To read more about almond cultivation :Click here.

Drumstick Farming Guide

Drumstick is a small or medium sized perennial tree which can reach up to  10 to 12 meter height with fragile and corky stem. The leaves are usually tri-pinnate with elliptic leaflets. Pods are pendulous and length ranges from 20 cm to 110 cm. Drumstick seeds are trigonous with wings on angles. Usually, drumstick is grown for its nutrient rich tender, but full grown pods, leaves and flowers which are used in culinary (cooking) preparations. Young shoots have purplish or greenish-white, hairy bark. The drumstick tree has an open crown of drooping, fragile branches and the leaves build up feathery foliage of tripinnate leaves. These vegetables contain good amounts of vitamins and minerals. Drumstick has excellent health benefits along with other industrial uses. Drumstick can be grown in backyard or commercially in open fields. The moringa tree is called as “miracle tree” in Asia. Generally, moringa or drumstick can be cultivated for its leaves, pods, and/or its kernels for oil extraction and water purification. To read more Click here.

Cabbage Growing Guide

Cabbage is one of the most popular vegetables in the world because of its adaptability to a wide range of climatic conditions and soil types, ease of production and storage, and its food value. Cabbage is believed to have evolved from a wild form native to Europe, growing along the coast of the North Sea, the English Channel and northern Mediterranean. To read More Click here.

Onion Cultivation Guide

The onion also known as the bulb onion or common onion is the most widely cultivated and consumed vegetables across the globe. The onion belongs to the family of "Amaryllidaceae" and genus of "Allium". Onion is one of the most important commercial vegetable crops grown in Asia. The demand for this vegetable is very high worldwide. Onion can be used as vegetable in both immature stage (spring onion or green onion) and mature bulb stage as vegetable and spices. Young plants may be harvested before bulbing occurs and used whole as spring onions or scallions. When an onion is harvested after bulbing has begun, but the onion is not yet mature, the plants are sometimes referred to as "summer" onions. To read more click here. 

Corn Farming Guide

Maize is popularly known as "Corn" and is one of the most versatile emerging cereal cash crops having wider adaptability under variety of climatic conditions. The word "maize" derives from the Spanish form of the indigenous Taino word for the plant, maiz. It is called queen of cereals globally. In Asia, maize is the third most important food cash crops after wheat & rice. The maize can be grown throughout the year in most of the Asian countries for various purposes including fodder for animals, food grain..to read more Click here.

Ginger Cultivation Guide

Ginger is one of excellent spice crops cultivated in Asia and India accounts for 40 % of the world's ginger production. Ginger root has high demand in national and international markets due to its excellent uses and benefits. Farmers can make gold out of it, if they follow the proper farm management practices. Ginger can be grown in greenhouse, indoors, containers, pots, and backyards. When it comes to plant description, ginger is an herbaceous perennial plant that grows annual stems about 1 meter tall bearing narrow green leaves and yellow flowers. Ginger belongs to the family of "Zingiberaceae" and genus of "Zingiber". To read more: Click here.

Mango Cultivation Guide

The mango is a juicy stone fruit and belong to the family of "Anacardiaceae" and genus of "Mangifera". Mangoes have been grown in South Asia for thousands of years & reached East Asia between the 5th and 4th centuries.  Mango is one of the top fruit crops of India and other Asian countries. Mango fruit is called the king of fruits. Mangos are delicious, excellent flavour and attractive fragrance, these fruits are good source of vitamin 'A' and Vitamin 'C'. Mango trees are hardy in nature, can be grown in a wide-range of soila and require to read more: Click here.

Broiler Chicken Farming Guide

Poultry meat is an important source of proteins, minerals and vitamins to balance the human diet. Specially developed varieties of chicken (broilers) are now available with quick growth & high feed conversion efficiency. Depending on the farm size, broiler farming can be a main source of family income. Poultry farming includes raising of various types of domestic birds commercially for the purpose of meat, eggs and feather production. The most common and widely raised poultry birds in the world are chicken. Again, these may be broiler chicken or layers. Commercial chicken farming is most successful business in Asia and other parts of the world. Proper care of birds and farm management practices will result in decent profits in short period of time. Basically Broilers are raised for meat purpose To read more Click here .

Spinach Cultivation Guide

Spinach is one of the perennial leafy vegetable and grown throughout the world. The commercial cultivation of spinach is successful due to local consumption and high market. Spinach has excellent nutrition values and health benefits. Farmers can grow this crop in greenhouse, poly house and hydroponic system as well. Spinach can be gown for daily use in pots, containers, back yards. Spinach belongs to the family of “Amaranthaceae” and genus of “Spinacia”. Spinach is thought to have originated in ancient Persia...To Read More Click here. 

Carrot Cultivation Information Guide

Carrot is one of the nutritious vegetable grown throughout the world. Commercial cultivation of carrot is successful in most of the regions. About 60% of world carrot production occurred in Asia alone. However, selecting quality seeds/seedlings and good farm management practices make the carrot production most successful. Carrots common to Asia have purple, pink, or red skins, with yellow or orange cores. Basically, carrots are biennial plants To Read More : Click here.

Rose Farming Guide

Rose is one of the popular and lovely flower grown all over the world. Rose plants can be a kind of shrubs, climbing or trailing with stems that are often armed with sharp prickles. Flowers vary in size and shape and are usually large and showy, in colours ranging from white through yellows, reds or multi-colours. Most of rose species are native to Asia, with smaller numbers native to Europe, North America, and northwest Africa. Rose plants range To Read More: Click here. 

Papaya Cultivation Information

Papaya, papaw or papita is a popular tropical fruit  which is native to Mexico. This fruit plant belongs to the family of "Caricaceae" and genus of "Carica". Papaya became popular due its fast growth, high yield, long fruiting period, high nutritive and medicinal values as well. Papaya has become popular all over Asia. Commercial cultivation of Papaya is very successful and highly profitable. The papaya plant has male, female, hermaphrodite (bisexual flower) and some other complex forms. Usually male papaya plants.. To read more: Click here

Banana Cultivation Information

Banana is one of the major and economically important fruit crop of Asian countries. Banana occupies vast area among the total area under crop cultivation in Asia region. Bananas are the fourth largest fruit crop in the entire world and most of Banana is cultivated by planting suckers. As technology development in agriculture is very fast, it results in developing tissue culture technique. Growing bananas does not require much effort but to achieve high yields or production requires dedication, farm management skills, and proper planting methods. Banana plant belongs to the family of "Musaceae" and genus of "Musa". To read more : click here. 

Quail Farming Guide

Basically Quails are small birds and commercially grown for their meat and eggs. These birds belong to the family of “Phasianidae”. In Asia, commercial farming of these birds is increasing day by day as the investment and maintenance is very low when compared to other birds. These bird eggs are very nutritious than chicken eggs. Japan quails are very popular in the world and the first commercial farming of quails is started in Japan and now it spread across the world. The advantage of the quail farming is, these birds can be raised along with other poultry birds. In Asia, due to the increasing  population in rural as well as in urban areas, there is a huge demand for meat and there is no doubt,,To Read More Info Click here. 

Watermelon Cultivation Guide

Watermelons are native to the Kalahari Desert of southern Africa and the first recorded watermelon crop was found in Egypt. Farmers can make good profits from cultivation of watermelon, if proper cultivation methods and farm management practices are followed. Individual watermelon plants produce both male and female flowers. The fruit size varies from 2 to 15 kg, depending on variety. However, seedless varieties need pollinators. With the help of fruit shape retainers, farmers producing different shapes of watermelons which have great demand in the market. For example, in Japan, square shaped and love shaped watermelons are popular have great demand. China is top producer of watermelon in the world. To read more, Click Here. 

Rice Farming Guide

India is an important centre for Rice Farming and consumption. India stands in second position after China in the production of rice. Methods of growing rice differ greatly in different regions, but in most Asian countries including India, the traditional hand methods of cultivating and harvesting rice are still practiced. Modern farming of rice started in most of the countries which drastically reduced the labour problems and cost of cultivation to read more Click here.

Ladies Finger Cultivation Guide

Okra is a vegetable crop which can be predominantly grown in tropics and subtropics. Okra originated in tropical and subtropical Africa. In Asia, the crop is cultivated for its young tender vegetables, used in curry and soups after cooking. Okra is also popularly known as “Lady's finger". In India, this vegetable as called as "Bhendi" or "Bihindi".Okra is good source of nutritional values and health benefits. The stem of the plant is used for the extraction of the fiber. Okra farming is very profitable and can be cultivated throughout the year. Okra belongs to the family of "Malvaceae" and genus of "Abelmoschus". To read more Click here. 

Mint Cultivation Informatio Guide

Mint is one of the popular herb cultivated for its aroma, culinary use and medicinal properties throughout the world. Mint belongs to the family of "Labiatae" and genus of "Mentha". Mentha oil is derived from a common mint. It is an aromatic annual herb plant having pleasant odour leaves and is classified as an industrial crop. The end product of Mentha oil is extracted from the mint leaves by processing and steam distillation. In most of the Asian countries, mint is used in dish preparations for better flavour and aroma. Mint is a commercial crop and has huge demand for its leaves due to its medicinal uses. One can get decent profits with mint farming provided proper mint cultivation practices are followed. The mint is originated from Brazil and China.To read more click here.

Tomato Cultivation Information Guide

Commercial cultivation of tomatoes such as greenhouse tomatoes, hydroponics tomatoes, playhouse tomatoes apart from open field tomatoes are pretty much successful everywhere in the world. The main advantage of tomato farming is, it can be grown from pots in backyard to highly commercial fields. Tomato belongs to the family of “Solanaceae” and genus of “Lycopersicon”. Basically it is a herbaceous sprawling plant growing to 1 meter to 3 meter in height and their flowers are in yellow colour. The tomato size depends on the cultivar (variety) as there many hybrid/commercial varieties available in the market. To read more click here. 

Bitter Gourd Farming Information

Bitter gourd (Memordica charantia L.) is one of the most popular vegetable cultivated throughout Asia and extensively grown in India. This vegetable is also known as Bitter melon in other parts of the world. In India this vegetable is called as "Karela". Basically Bitter gourd plant is a vine that has climbing nature and belongs to the family of "Cucurbitaceae". Bitter gourd is popular due to its nutritious values, medicinal values and excellent health benefits. This vegetable is also used in herbal products. The taste of this vegetable is bitter due to the presence of 'momordicine'. The commercial cultivation of bitter gourd is very successful because of its high market demand and value. Bitter gourd is mostly consumed as fresh juice apart from using in culinary purpose.To read more: Click here.

Coconut Cultivation Guide

Coconut Farming:- Coconut plays very significant role in Asian economy and grown throughout tropical world. Dried coconut kernels (copra) and coconut oil is widely used in soap manufacturing, cosmetics and hair oils. Coconuts also used in many industrial products, which husk is source of fibre used in coir industry. The tender coconut water is a popular thirst quencher of health and virgin coconut oil (VCO), extracted from fresh coconut kernel without any chemical processes is full of vitamins, minerals and anti-oxidants, thus making the coconut oils as “mother of all oils”. In India, commercial cultivation of coconut is major contributor of rural economy; these nuts are cultivated not only in coastal area but also in other states. With good farm management practices farmers can achieve maximum yield and thus profits. Coconut is cultivated in more than 93 countries of the world and Indonesia, Philippines, India are the major production countries in the world. In India, Kerala, Karnataka, TamilNadu, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Orissa, Goa, West Bengal, Pondicherry, Maharashtra and Islands of Lakshadweep and Andaman and Nicobar, Gujarat, Assam, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Tripura, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland are major commercial production and traditional cultivated states. Coconut belongs to the family of “Arecaceae” (Palm family) and genus of “Cocos”. To Read more click here.