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Onion Cultivation in India – Profit and Cost of Farming
Onion is one vegetable that is consumed worldwide and is an ingredient in at least one meal of the day. Not just in India, but worldwide, onion is one of the few vegetables which is added in almost all main courses. Onions are consumed raw but mostly consumed cooked. The flavor exuded by onion puts…
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Kadaknath Chicken Farming
An average backyard poultry farmer has 5-50 chickens on a farm. The setup is moderate to minimal and the birds scavenge for feed. Commercial broiler chicken and other breeds used for commercial chicken cultivation are not preferred due to high maintenance and problems with the birds’ health itself. Maintenance costs for commercial breeds of chicken…
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Watermelon (Tarbooj) Farming in india
Most fruit crops are orchards. Trees that last at least a few decades. Mangoes, Peaches, Apples, Oranges, plums… All trees. But there are some exceptions. Berries are shrubs and then melons.. They are vines. Melons are annuals. They last only a season and need to be cultivated again the next year. Everything starts afresh. The…
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Kagzi Lime – Acid Lime Farming
India is the 4th largest producer of lime and lemon in the world but the most popular citrus fruit consumed widely in india is the kagzi lime or the Acid lime. The lime which is used in cuisine and also consumed as juices is not lemon, though most people refer to it as Lemon. Kagzi…
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Mango Cultivation, Profit & Yield per acre
India takes pride in cultivating over 1500 Varieties of mangoes of which 1000 of them are commercially grown. Mango is known as the king of fruits in India and is also the national fruit. Among fruit cultivation, mango takes nearly 50% of the land holdings in India. The fruits are exported worldwide today and farmers…
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Birds Eye Chilli – Kanthari chili cultivation in Kerala
Spices have always been an important part of the cuisine worldwide and the most common one of all spices is chili or hot pepper. But the problem with pepper is that there is a wide range. And when I say wide range, I am talking about 1000 odd varieties only in pepper. What’s interesting though…
