{"id":4282,"date":"2023-03-14T02:34:24","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T21:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4282"},"modified":"2025-03-26T23:06:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T17:36:33","slug":"dragon-fruit-kamalam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/dragon-fruit-kamalam\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragon Fruit (Kamalam)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Dragon Fruit:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Dragon Fruit is <strong>a herbaceous perennial climbing<\/strong> cactus widely known as Pitaya, has its origin in Southern Mexico, Central America and South America.<\/li>\n<li>Its flowers are <strong>hermaphrodites<\/strong> (male and female organs in the same flower) in nature and open at night.<\/li>\n<li>It grows in <strong>all kinds of soil and does not require much water<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The plant sustains yield for more than 20 years, is high in <strong>nutraceutical properties<\/strong> (medicinal effects) and good for value-added processing industries.<\/li>\n<li>It is widely <strong>cultivated<\/strong> in <strong>South-East Asia, India, the USA, The Caribbean Islands, and Australia<\/strong> throughout the tropical and sub-tropical world.<\/li>\n<li>The world\u2019s <strong>largest producer and exporter of dragon fruit is Vietnam<\/strong>, where the plant was brought by the French in the 19th century.<\/li>\n<li>In India, the cultivation of Kamalam Fruit is done in <strong>Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, West Bengal<\/strong>, Andhra Pradesh, Andaman &amp; Nicobar Islands<strong>, Mizoram and Nagaland<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>In this endeavor under the <strong>Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture<\/strong> (MIDH), a roadmap is being prepared for the cultivation of this crop.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Key facts about the Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture (MIDH) Mission<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>Centrally Sponsored Scheme<\/strong> for the holistic <strong>growth of the horticulture sector<\/strong> covering fruits, vegetables, root &amp; tuber crops, mushrooms, spices, flowers, aromatic plants, coconut, cashew, cocoa and bamboo.<\/li>\n<li>Under MIDH, the Government of India (GOI) <strong>contributes 60%, of the total outlay<\/strong> for developmental programmes <strong>in all the states except states in the North East and the Himalayas,<\/strong> and 40% share is contributed by State Governments.<\/li>\n<li>In the case of North Eastern States and Himalayan States, <strong>GOI contributes 90%.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>In the case of the National Horticulture Board (NHB), Coconut Development Board (CDB), Central Institute for Horticulture (CIH), Nagaland and the National Level Agencies (NLA), GOI contributes 100%.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the objective of the National Horticulture Board?<\/h3>\n<p>The main objectives of the NHB are to improve integrated development of\u00a0 the Horticulture industry and to help in coordinating, sustaining the production and processing of fruits and vegetables.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1906572\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kamalam (Dragon Fruit) cultivation area in India expected to expand to 50,000 hectares in five years under MIDH scheme from the present 3,000 ha.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dragon Fruit is a herbaceous perennial climbing cactus widely known as Pitaya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4283,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4282","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\/4282","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=4282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}