{"id":129067,"date":"2026-10-15T13:12:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T07:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=129067"},"modified":"2026-10-15T13:13:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T07:43:25","slug":"soybean-cultivation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/soybean-cultivation\/","title":{"rendered":"Soybean Cultivation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Soybean Cultivation Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, the ICAR\u2013National Soybean Research Institute (ICAR-NSRI) in Indore assessed the yield potential of improved soybean varieties NRC 268 and NRC 270.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Soybean\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Soybean, (Glycine max), sometimes called soja bean, is an <\/span><b>annual legume of the pea family (Fabaceae).\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In agriculture, soybean <\/span><b>enhances soil fertility<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> through <\/span><b>nitrogen fixation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a major crop <\/span><b>cultivated during the <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/kharif-and-rabi-crops\/\" target=\"_blank\">kharif season<\/a><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (July-October) in the rainfed (dryland) areas of central and peninsular India.<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Required Climatic Conditions for Soybean<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Climate:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Soybean grows well in <\/span><b>warm and moist climate.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Temperature:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> A temperature of <\/span><b>26.5 to 30\u00b0C appears<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to be the optimum for most of the varieties.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Rainfall:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Soybean <\/span><b>is highly sensitive to water stress<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, particularly during critical growth phases such as flowering, pod development, and seed filling.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Soil:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Well drained <\/span><b>and fertile loam soils<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with a pH between 6.0 and 7.5<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Major Soyabean Growing States:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Karnataka, Chhattisgarh, Telangana, Karnataka and Chhattisgarh.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleseDetailm.aspx?PRID=2322744&amp;lang=1&amp;reg=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PIB<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soybean is an annual legume of the pea family (Fabaceae). Read more about Soybean Cultivation, Required Climatic Conditions, Top Producers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":129034,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10888],"class_list":["post-129067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-soybean-cultivation","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129067"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129090,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129067\/revisions\/129090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}