Palmarosa Farming information

Palmarosa is tropical perennial grass which is being cultivated for its oil that smells like rose fragrance. It is perennial plant thrives well in tropical and humid climatic conditions. This plant grows wild in some parts of India. Palmarosa is also known as Indian Rosha or Motia or Tikhadi, This perennial grass plant is native to South East Asia, especially India. Palmarosa used in perfumery, food flavouring and pharmaceutical industries. As we know the fact that the demand for aroma industry increasing day by day, farmers are now looking for commercial production of Palmarosa crop. By adopting proper crop cultivation practices, one can obtain decent profits. The following write-up details about package practices of Palmarosa cultivation. Read more : Here.

Neem Cultivation Practices

Well, Neem is one  of the wonder trees originated in India. Why the Neem tree is now gaining the importance worldwide? Well, because it has an excellent scope of commercialization and importance in agriculture, veterinary, cosmetics, medicines. Neem is an eco-friendly and natural source of phyto-chemicals and nutrients, due to this fact it gained superb importance in agriculture sector. Organic farming is the one which gets more benefits from Neem based products.

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Dairy Farm Business Question and Answers

Well, anyone who wants to go for commercial dairy farming business in India will certainly have some basic questions. Let us discuss different type questions related to starting a dairy farm in India.

Dairy Farm Business - What should I start with cows or buffaloes in my farm?

Well, there is no direct or easy answer for this and It depends on many factors. Generally, you can expect more milk from cows when compared to buffaloes. However, buffalo milk fat content is twice as much as cow milk because of this reason, buffalo milk gets better price in local markets. When it comes to daily milking, milking a cow can be done by automated machines where as it would be difficult task for buffaloes. Buffaloes are hardy animals and more disease resistant when compared to cows. When it comes to price, cows are cheaper than buffaloes. Heat cycle detection is easy in cows when compared to buffaloes. So ultimately it is your decision to choose one of them. I have personally heard from many dairy farmers they like buffaloes than cows. However, final call is yours, of course you can have both them and test yourself.

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Azolla Farming Information Guide

What is Azolla? Well, it is nothing but a free floating water fern consisting of a short, branched, floating stem, bearing roots which hang down in the water. It's kind of green fodder grown on water surface. Why the Azolla cultivation is increasing and becoming popular? Because, Azolla has many nutrient benefits when compared to other fodders. Apart from this, it has nature of fixing Nitrogen in rice crop field. Read more : Here. 

Seedbed Making Information Guide

If we live in an area with low winter temperatures, it could be very useful to make a seedbed. Let's see what is a seedbed and how to make it!

A seedbed  is a protected environment where plants and vegetables are sowed so that they can be, after some month, transplanted in our vegetable garden.
Sowing could be made also directly in the soil, but it is usually not recommended because low temperatures and unfavorable weather conditions  can prevent  seeds germination. Instead, using a seedbed we can  “control” climate and temperatures, thus increasing the amount of vegetables we could have at our disposal. There are many advantages of using a seedbed which can explained further. Read more : HERE. 

Patchouli Cultivation Guide

Patchouli is an aromatic crop mainly grown for its oil used in the manufacture of perfumes, cosmetics, tobacco, soaps, medicines, beverages. Basically, Patchouli is native to Philippines. When it comes to plant description, Patchouli is a perennial, small bushy herb of the mint family, with erect stems, reaching up to three feet tall and bearing small, pale pink-white flowers and yields fragrant leaves containing very sweet smelling oil. However, most Asian countries are cultivating commercially due to increasing demand for this essential oil. The essential oil extracted from this plant is expensive and available at Rs.1,200 to 1250 per kg in the market. In India, Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic crops (CIMAPS) in Lucknow have developed a high yielding Patchouli variety called "Samarth".   Read more : Here.

Grouper Fish Farming Guide

Grouper is one of marine fishes belongs to the genus of “Epinephelus”. This fish culture is gaining commercial importance across the world. This fish is locally known as “Lapu Lapu” or “Inid” in Philippines. India is also showing lots of interest in Grouper fish culture. The taste of grouper fish is better than Murrel (sneak head) fish. These fish have highly valued because of their excellent body texture and flavour. The export market for grouper is rapidly increasing specially in in Hong Kong, and Singapore, Japan. When it comes to body characteristics of grouper fish, most of the fish is found with light yellowish to brown spots on their body fins and head. There are two type’s species such as E. coioides and E malabricus are popularly cultured in either net cages or ponds out of 40 species are distributed in tropical waters. The biggest challenge in commercial production of grouper fish is the shortage of fingerlings or seed from the wild or hatchery (nurseries). Because of seed shortage, high market value of this fish have encouraged many countries in Asia  including India to initiate research and development programmes on grouper breeding and seed production. In India, until now, naturally collected seed from wild waters are serving the purpose. Now the breeding of groupers has started in India as well. Grouper fishes are extensively cultured in coastal brackish water ponds and floating, fixed net cages in many south Asian countries. Read more : HERE.