Bottle Gourd Farming Guide

Bottle Gourd Farming Info:-

Bottle gourd is one of the popular vegetable crops cultivated in south East Asia. This vegetable is extensively grown in India and fruits are available throughout the year. Bottle gourd plant is a vigorous, annual and climbing vine with large leaves and a lush appearance. Bottle gourd usually comes to harvesting in 3 months and its flowers are solitary, chalky white in colour and open at night. Bottle gourd fruits are fleshy and vary in shape and size. The name "bottle gourd" is due to its bottle like shape. Bottle gourd belongs to the family of "Cucurbitaceae" and genus of "Lagenaria". Bottle gourd is also known as "calabash" and “lauki”. Bottle gourd is originated from tropical Africa and spread across the world. Bottle gourd vegetables at early (tender) stage are used in cooking’s for preparing various dishes. Mature fruits are used as water jugs, domestic utensils, floats for fishing nets. The big advantage of this crop is, bottle gourd will start flowering 2 months after sowing. Though, this crop is cultivated under rainfed conditions, one can plan for multiple crops throughout the year provided there is enough irrigation facility. Bottle gourd leaves also have some good medicinal properties and a decoction made out of leaf is used for curing jaundice. One can get decent profits from commercial cultivation of bottle gourd with proper crop management practices. To read more : Click here.

Groundnut Cultivation Guide

Peanut also knows as Groundnut is one of the top oil seed crop grown in Asian countries. Peanut is widely grown in the tropics and subtropics, being important to both small and large commercial growers. Peanut is an annual herbaceous plant that may reach up to 50 cm height. Peanut belongs to the family of "Fabaceae" and genus of "Arachis". India is the second largest producer of Peanuts next to China in Asia. Peanuts are used in culinary preparation by roasting, making peanut flour and extracting peanut oil. Peanuts are rich in essential nutrients. In a 100 grams serving of peanuts provide 550 calories and are an excellent source of several B vitamins, vitamin E, several dietary minerals, such as manganese, magnesium and phosphorus, and dietary fiber. Peanut seed contains about 40 to 45 % of oil and 25 % of protein. Peanut kernel is very easy digestible and the oil cake obtained after the extraction of the oil from Peanut is a valuable organic manure and animal feed. It contains 6 % 'N', 1 % phosphorus and 1% potash. Peanut is a good rotation crop which builds up the soil fertility by fixing atmospheric nitrogen through the root nodules. Peanut Farming is also an excellent cover crop especially for lands exposed to soil erosion. Commercial Farming of Peanut is pretty much successful and one can easily make decent profits provided certain field management procedures are practiced.Read more here.

Eggplant Cultivation Guide

Eggplant is one of the most common tropical vegetables grown in the world. This vegetable is known by different names and “Eggplant” is the common name in North American and Australian English but British English uses "aubergine". This vegetable is known in South Asia and South Africa as brinjal which belongs to the family of "Solanaceae" and genus of "Solanum".There are many eggplant varieties differ in size and shape are grown throughout the world. In south East Asia eggplant is being used in curry and used to prepare different kinds of dishes. Eggplant has some medicinal properties as well. Commercial cultivation of eggplant yields good profits and these vegetables can be marketed easily as there is good demand in local vegetable markets. Eggplants can be grown in greenhouses, playhouses and even in backyards. People who have less space can go for growing eggplant in pots or containers. Terrace farming is also beneficial for daily vegetable needs. Different eggplant cultivars produce fruit of different size, shape, and colour, though typically purple. The most widely cultivated varieties in Europe continent and North American continent are elongated ovoid, 10 to 25 cm long and 6 to 10 cm broad in dark purple skin eggplants. A much wider range of shapes, sizes and colours are cultivated in India and elsewhere in South Asia. Basically, eggplant is originated from Burma region. However, this crop is distributed in south and south East Asia, southern Europe, China and Japan. India is the second largest producer of eggplant in the world next to China.To read more Click here.

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.