{"id":1575,"date":"2016-03-20T13:15:25","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T07:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cropinfo.in\/agriinfo\/?p=1575"},"modified":"2016-03-20T15:10:54","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T09:40:54","slug":"gujarat-could-become-major-dragon-fruit-producer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cropinfo.in\/agriinfo\/gujarat-could-become-major-dragon-fruit-producer\/","title":{"rendered":"Gujarat could become major dragon fruit producer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1577\" src=\"https:\/\/cropinfo.in\/agriinfo\/infobase\/uploads\/2016\/03\/dragon_fruit-150x150.gif\" alt=\"Dragon Fruit\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cropinfo.in\/agriinfo\/infobase\/uploads\/2016\/03\/dragon_fruit-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/cropinfo.in\/agriinfo\/infobase\/uploads\/2016\/03\/dragon_fruit-300x300.gif 300w, https:\/\/cropinfo.in\/agriinfo\/infobase\/uploads\/2016\/03\/dragon_fruit-100x100.gif 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Dragon fruit cultivation in south Gujarat, India, is gaining in popularity. At least 15,000 plants of the tropical fruit have been planted in the Surat, Tapi and Baruch districts. A farmer, who spends Rs 275,000 per acre on dragon fruit plantation, can expect seven tonne of fruits after two years.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Jayesh Patel from the Bharuch district imported his seeds from Thailand, now after 18 months, he has nearly 5,000 dragon fruit plants.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;The flowering season for this plant begins in June and lasts until November. The harvesting time is 45 days. This plant and fruit need a humid climate and a good amount of water,&#8221; said Patel.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;A two-year plant bears at least 45 fruits in a season and one fruit weighs about 250 grams. A red variety sells for Rs300 per kg and white one for Rs150 per kg,&#8221; said another farmer Jigar Desai.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Dinesh Padaliya, assistant director of horticulture for the Gujarat Government, said, &#8220;Many farmers in Narmada district are also likely to go in for dragon fruit cultivation. It can be a good cash crop for many farmers. Dragon fruit cultivation can pick up in south Gujarat and the region can aspire to be a major producer of it like it is of mangoes.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dragon fruit cultivation in south Gujarat, India, is gaining in popularity. At least 15,000 plants of the tropical fruit have been planted in the Surat, Tapi and Baruch districts. A farmer, who spends Rs 275,000 per acre on dragon fruit plantation, can expect seven tonne of fruits after two years. Jayesh Patel from the Bharuch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1577,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crop-cultivation","category-crop-community","entry","has-media","owp-thumbs-layout-horizontal","owp-btn-normal","owp-tabs-layout-horizontal","has-no-thumbnails"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cropinfo.in\/agriinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cropinfo.in\/agriinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cropinfo.in\/agriinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cropinfo.in\/agriinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cropinfo.in\/agriinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1575"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cropinfo.in\/agriinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1583,"href":"https:\/\/cropinfo.in\/agriinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions\/1583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cropinfo.in\/agriinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cropinfo.in\/agriinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cropinfo.in\/agriinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cropinfo.in\/agriinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}