Lavender spp

cultivation practices of lavandula spp

1. PACKAGE OF PRACTICE LAVENDER

2. Botanical name – lavandula spp Family – lamiaceae Origin place – meditarian region Uses – perfumery industry

3. IMPORTANCE AND CHEMICAL COMPOSITION LAVENDER is a small genus of perenial aromatic herbs and shrub . It include about 28 spp . Only 3 spp are cultivated l. angustifolia , l . latifolia , l. hybrida . Its main constituent is the easter , linalyl acetate . which range from 30-60 % .

4. ORIGIN AND DISTRIBUTION Lavender is indigenous to the meditarian regin It is cultivated several other countries in europe .

5. Area and production In india it is cultivated kashmir valley , HP, UP. No data is avilable on area and prodution of levender in india .

6. SOIL and climate Light well-aerated, dry and calcareous with enough nutrients is best suited for lavender cultivation . water logged soil are unsuitable for its cultivation . Ph range from 7-8.4 . Levender is a temperate photophyllus plant . It is resistance to drought and frost .

7. PROPAGATION levender may reproduce it self in two ways ; by seed and vegetatively . Seed reproduction is cheap and quick . It is cross pollinated . vegetatively by cutting .

8. VARIETIES Some imp clone AM-1, AM-2, AM -3, A-5, A-7 , A-8 , A- 9 These are the high yielding clones .

9. IRRIGATION During the dry period , the crop must be irrigated frequently to obtained a good spike yield .

10. INTERCULTURE During the first two year of planting 2-3 cultivations along the row and 5-6 cultivations b/w the rows . To the depth of 8-10 cm are required .

11. HARVESTING AND YIELD The plants are harvested once blooming has started . The whole plant leaving the basal one-thirs of the plant for natural regeneration is harvested The fresh herbage is use of steam distillation . About 10 tonnes of fresh herbage is obtained in one hactare.

12. EXTRACTION OF ESSENTIAL OIL The herbage is distilled using steam distillation method . The essential oil contant in different varieties varies fron 0.5% to 1.1% with 0.8% as the average oil content

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