{"id":22320,"date":"2024-04-09T10:39:09","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T05:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=22320"},"modified":"2025-04-06T18:54:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T13:24:31","slug":"lavender-cultivation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/lavender-cultivation\/","title":{"rendered":"Lavender Cultivation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Lavender Cultivation<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a crop <strong>native to Europe <\/strong>but was introduced in the temperate regions of Jammu &amp;Kashmir state by the CSIR Aroma Mission.<\/li>\n<li>It is a small, <strong>perennial aromatic herb shrub<\/strong> used in the fragrance, specialty food, and alternative medicine industries.<\/li>\n<li>Propagation of lavender can be done by <strong>seeds, rooted cuttings, tissue culture, and layering.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Required climatic conditions<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Soil:<\/strong> It can grow well in light well-aerated soil rich with organic matter. It grows best in <strong>neutral to alkaline soil<\/strong> which is free draining. This crop is very sensitive to waterlogging however can go well with poor or eroded soil.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rainfall:<\/strong> It can produce well with an annual rainfall <strong>range from 300 to 1400 mm <\/strong>per year.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Climate: <\/strong>It is a <strong>hard and temperate plant<\/strong> that can tolerate drought and frost conditions. The ideal climatic conditions are <strong>cool winters and cool summers<\/strong>. It requires a good amount of sunlight.<\/li>\n<li>It can be grown in areas that experience <strong>snowfall and have a hilly terrain<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Applications:<\/strong> Food and flavouring, Pharmaceutical and therapeutic, Cosmetic, and Industrial purposes etc.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is tissue culture?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a method of biological research in which fragments of tissue from an animal or plant are transferred to an artificial environment in which they can continue to survive and function.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/lavender-turned-small-farmers-into-big-businessmen-in-jks-doda-9258649\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>How lavender turned small farmers into big businessmen in J-K\u2019s Doda<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lavender Cultivation is a crop native to Europe but was introduced in the temperate regions of Jammu &#038; Kashmir state by the CSIR Aroma Mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22321,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22320","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22320","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}