India
Banana takes more potassium out of the ground than almost anything else grown in India. Not slightly more than nitrogen. Substantially more. Jalgaon runs roughly 48,000 hectares of it, mostly tissue culture Grand Naine on black soils, with yields in the 65 to 80 tonne...
India
Nashik accounts for the large majority of India’s table grape exports, and the season is short. Shipping runs from late December into April, with the best fruit moving in February and March. What makes grape different from every other crop a distributor stocks...
India
Two national programmes have measured micronutrients in Indian soils using different methods and different sample sizes. ICAR’s coordinated project analysed about 243,000 samples across 615 districts. The Soil Health Card programme analysed more than 30 million....
India
Every fertilizer distributor in Maharashtra, Gujarat, or Karnataka has heard the objection. A farmer looks at the price of water-soluble fertilizer, compares it to a bag of conventional urea or DAP, and says the soluble product costs too much. The objection is real....
India
India grows more pomegranates than any other country, close to half the world’s supply, and Maharashtra alone accounts for the bulk of it. Most of that fruit is sold at home, but the export share going to the Gulf, Europe, and increasingly North America is where...
