Dragon Fruit: A Fruit for Health Benefits and Nutritional Security
Journal Title: International Journal of Agricultural Science and Research (IJASR) - Year 2018, Vol 8, Issue 2
Abstract
Dragon fruit (Hylocerus undatus (Haw.) is a perennial, climbing vine belongs to cactaceae family. Its flower is most beautiful in the cactaceae family with bright red skin stubbed with green scales and white or red flesh with tiny black seeds distributed across the flesh of the dragon fruit are edible and nutritious. It is a Fast Growing vine, a crop that once planted, it will grow for about 20 years, and 1 hectare could accommodate about 800 dragon fruit plants. Moreover, it fetches high and fast return towith production in the second year after planting, and full production when it attains the age of five. Time to time periodical climate change causes serious stress on the total available resources underneath earth especially water. As a result rate of rainfall become very irratic leads to dryness of soil and weather. Therefore, become a favourable growing conditiosn for its cultivation. It adores that region, which hasving a dry spell of weather with supplementary irrigation for cultivation. So, there is a wide prospect of its cultivation in India due to the favourable climate and to overcome nutritional security. Dragon fruit is a potential food source for the present and future, besides having great potential for medicine and industrial production. Therefore, the farmer can gain benefits immensely if its cultivation practice is initiated on a large scale apart from the existing farming system and it can explore a wide spread of fruit industry
Authors and Affiliations
RAJNI SINHA, MANISH KUMAR JHA, KUMARI KARUNA
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