{"id":59816,"date":"2025-08-18T13:49:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T08:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=59816"},"modified":"2025-08-18T14:09:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T08:39:33","slug":"almond-cultivation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/almond-cultivation\/","title":{"rendered":"Almond Cultivation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Almond Cultivation<\/b> <b>Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The almond harvest in Kashmir marks an important seasonal and cultural event, and this year\u2019s bumper crop has brought smiles to farmers\u2019 faces.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Almond Cultivation<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Almonds are one of the major and oldest <\/span><b>tree nut crops in the world.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are <\/span><b>two types of almonds available:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Sweet almond and bitter almond.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Required Climatic Conditions for Almond<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><b>Climate<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Colder regions&#8217; climate is suitable for almond farming.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><b>Temperature:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Temperature <\/span><b>ranging between 7\u00b0C to 24\u00b0C is<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> considered appropriate.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><b>Soil:<\/b> <b>Deep, loamy, well drained soils<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are ideal for almond growing.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><b>Rainfall:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Average rainfall needed is 75 to 110 cm.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Almond plants can grow easily at an altitude of <\/span><b>750 to 3200 meters above sea level.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Major Almond<\/b> <b>farming Countries: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">USA, Australia, Spain, Turkey<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Major Almond farming states : <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In India Almond cultivation is mainly done in the hilly parts of colder regions, mainly in <\/span><b>Jammu&amp; Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Kerala<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>some hilly regions of Andhra Pradesh.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Uses:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Almonds are used for various purposes like in <\/span><b>sweets, milk, nuts<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> used in the food and used in producing oils.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Challenges:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Erratic weather patterns, limited access to modern farming techniques, competition from lower-cost imports, shrinking farmlands, and a lack of policy support from authorities.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/jammu-and-kashmir\/in-frames-nutty-delight\/article69943302.ece#:~:text\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><b>TH<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almonds are one of the major and oldest tree nut crops in the world. Read more about Almond Cultivation, Types, Uses, Challenges, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":59848,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2239,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-59816","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-almond-cultivation","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59816","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=59816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}