{"id":25080,"date":"2024-07-16T08:12:52","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T02:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=25080"},"modified":"2025-04-07T15:20:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T09:50:21","slug":"kashmir-willow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/kashmir-willow\/","title":{"rendered":"Kashmir willow"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Kashmir willow:\u00a0<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is mainly grown in the Kashmir region of India.<\/li>\n<li>It is a <strong>deciduous tree<\/strong> that can grow up to 30 meters (98 feet). It has slender trunks and a narrow, conical canopy and it takes 20 to 25 years to mature.<\/li>\n<li>These trees do well in the region\u2019s <strong>moist and temperate climate<\/strong>, especially along riverbanks and in places with sufficient soil moisture.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Characteristics of Willow<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Willows exhibit <strong>superior growth and productivity<\/strong> due to their highest capacity to convert solar radiation into chemical energy.<\/li>\n<li>The species exhibits <strong>high rates of evapotranspiration<\/strong> during the growing season.<\/li>\n<li>Willows are tolerant to flooding and flourish in saturated soils with oxygen shortage in the root zone.<\/li>\n<li>Willows exhibit efficient ability to accumulate high levels of toxic metals, especially Cadmium (Cd).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Uses: <\/strong>Cricket bat industry, Packing case industry, Basketry and furniture industry etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is evapotranspiration?<\/h3>\n<p>It is the sum of all processes by which water moves from the land surface to the atmosphere via evaporation and transpiration.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindubusinessline.com\/news\/bats-made-of-kashmiri-willow-has-been-attracting-global-attention\/article68403845.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kashmir willow hitting global boundaries<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kashmir willow  is mainly grown in the Kashmir region of India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":25081,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25080","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\/25080","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=25080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}