Wednesday, 5 April 2017

Growing Vegetables in Containers at Home


Well, in the current world as population is increasing, demand for food is also increasing in parallel. We are seeing apartment culture is going up especially in cities and even in towns. People are hardly having any space for their gardening needs. Most of the people are dreaming of growing vegetables on their own which can be healthy, can save good amount. Apart from these, home gardening is one of the best things to relive from stress. You can place these pots on roofs / terrace, a patio, deck, parking space, balcony.

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Saturday, 1 April 2017

Geranium Farming Guide


Geranium is one of aromatic and herbaceous bushy perennial  annual plant commercially grown for its essential oil. It is also being grown for ornamental purpose (cut flowers for decoration). This plant is also known as poor mans ‘rose’. The oil extracted from the leaves, stems, flowers of the geranium plant has excellent health benefits and used in aromatic treatment. The commercial oil of geranium is extracted from Pelargonium graveolens of the family Geraniaceae. 
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Sunday, 26 March 2017

Chinese Cabbage Growing Guide



Chinese cabbage is a leafy vegetable native to china province. It is also being grown in other Asian countries including India. Chinese cabbage is a leading market vegetable in China, Japan, Korea and Southeast Asian region. Chinese cabbage is closely related to vegetables like broccoli, or cauliflower. Chinese cabbage can be used in many dishes such as boiled in soups, salads or stir fries. In India, Fresh leaves can be used for curry/chutney/leaf fry. Though this cabbage is called with different names in Asian countries, outside world knows this vegetable as “Chinese Cabbage”. The Chinese cabbage crop is a cool season annual vegetable crop which thrives best when the days are short and mild. Chinese cabbage tastes mild and aromatic and it is good source of calcium and vitamin 'C'. 

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Wednesday, 8 March 2017

Chow-Chow Vegetable Growing guide



Chow chow is one of the edible perennial plants belonging to the gourd family Cucurbitaceae, along with melons, cucumbers and squash. Chow chow is also known with different names like chayote summer squash, cho-cho. The plant looks similar to Ridge gourd/ Bottle gourd plants.  Chow chow fruit is roughly pear-shaped, somewhat flattened and with coarse wrinkles and it can range from 10 to 15 cm in length. This vegetable is used in pickles and sambar in south India. In addition to fruit, stem, tender leaves and tuberous roots are also eaten. Chow chow has great nutrition values and has good health benefits. This plant can be grown in backyards, containers, pots and greenhouses/ poly houses / shade nets. The following article details about growing chow chow vegetable.
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Sunday, 26 February 2017

Dairy Farming Business Plan Information



No matter what the season is and no matter what the place is "There is always great demand for milk" in India. Due to the population increase and consumption of milk tremendously increasing day by day. The rising unemployment and people who are looking for starting a dairy farm in recent years is almost doubled. Milk production in India is expected to grow at about 3 to 4% every year. There are many people who want to get into small scale or large scale dairy farming business. However, due to lack of knowledge and initial investment involved they are unable to setting up a dairy unit. We advise you not to get into this dairy business unless you dedicate your effort and time on your farm round the clock. You are not necessarily start a dairy farm in commercial scale; you can start on small scale business and expand it to large scale once you are aware of ins and outs of dairy farming. 

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Sunday, 19 February 2017

Organic Farming Information



What is organic farming? Well, it is a farming system in which organic wastes like crop, animal and farm wastes, aquatic wastes and other biological materials along with bio-fertilizers are being used instead of pesticides, fertilizers, genetically modified organisms, hormones / growth regulators, feed additives. What is the importance of organic farming? As we all know current crop /agriculture farming system is completely polluted with pesticides and chemicals, to protect environment and overcome the current situation in agriculture sector, organic farming is very important and essential to release nutrients to crops for increased sustainable production in an eco-friendly pollution free environment. 

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Tuesday, 14 February 2017

Plant Tissue Culture Questions and Answers



What is Plant Tissue Culture?:- Well, plant tissue culture is the process of producing plants from tissues of the required plant in an artificial nutrient medium under controlled environment (like greenhouse). The plants produced under this process are going to be 100 % replica (similar) of mother plan in all aspects.
What is Totipotency?:- Totipotency signifies a feature which  is nothing but  producing a whole plant (100% similar in all aspects) by single cell  or the inherent potentiality of a plant cell to give rise to a whole plant is described as cellular Totipotency.  

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