{"id":25465,"date":"2024-07-30T01:04:54","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T19:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=25465"},"modified":"2025-04-07T18:09:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T12:39:24","slug":"saffron-crop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/saffron-crop\/","title":{"rendered":"Saffron Crop"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Saffron Crop:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is one of the <strong>costliest herbal spices<\/strong> across the globe and popularly known as <strong>Red Gold or the Golden Condiment.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The commercial part of Saffron is Stigma, which is the female part of flower also termed as Saffron filament or Saffron thread or Saffron stigmata.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>seeds<\/strong> of Saffron are <strong>called corms or bulbs, <\/strong>and Saffron plant <strong>regenerates from the vegetative multiplication<\/strong> of its underground corms.<\/li>\n<li>It contains <strong>crocin, picrocrocin and saffranal<\/strong> which are very important constituents for both medicinal and aesthetic purposes.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Distribution:<\/strong> The saffron plant is native to Greece and Asia Minor, but it is now cultivated in many parts of <strong>Europe<\/strong> (especially Italy, France, and Spain), <strong>China, and India.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>In India around 90% of saffron production comes <strong>from Kashmir<\/strong>, where it has been grown for centuries.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Required Climatic conditions<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It grows at an elevation of 1,500-2,000 m above mean sea level.<\/li>\n<li>Saffron cultivation requires explicit climatic conditions with temperatures ranging from not more than 35oC or 40oC in the summer to about -15oC or -20oC in the winter.<\/li>\n<li>It can be grown in dry, moderate and continental climate types.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Soil:<\/strong> It thrives on loamy, sandy, and calcareous soils.<\/li>\n<li>Saffron grows <strong>best on acidic soil.<\/strong> It thrives well when the soil pH is 5.5 to 8.5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is Vegetative reproduction?<\/h3>\n<p>It is any form of asexual reproduction occurring in plants in which a new plant grows from a fragment of the parent plant or grows from a specialized reproductive structure (such as a stolon, rhizome, tuber, corm, or bulb).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindubusinessline.com\/economy\/agri-business\/losing-spice-kashmirs-prized-saffron-crops-hit-by-dry-spells\/article68457850.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Losing spice: Kashmir\u2019s prized saffron crop hit by dry spells<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saffron Crop is one of the costliest herbal spices across the globe and popularly known as Red Gold or the Golden Condiment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":25466,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25465","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\/25465","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=25465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}