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Title:

Technology for Year Round Cultivation of Quality Spice Crops
Value Proposition:

CSIR-IHBT has developed hydroponic cultivation process for spice crops such as Basil, Oregano and Parsley. These spice crops find application in daily culinary, extraction of active spice components and dehydrated food products.
Summary Application:

The demand for spice crops are increasing and currently valued at USD 8 billion and expected to grow at 12%.
Advantages:

Salient features of technology

  1. Crop specific nutrient media
  2. Short cultivation cycle
  3. Uniform quality produce
  4. Disease free plants
  5. Year round crop production

The technology is of societal relevance.
Tech. Readiness Level:
CSIR-Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology
CSIR-Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology[CSIR-IHBT]
:  director[at]ihbt[dot]res[dot]in
:91-1894-230411
:https://www.ihbt.res.in
Industrial Applications: Agriculture methods [Agriculture] Agricutltural Tools [Agriculture] Biotechnology [Biological Science] Pollution control [Environmental (Clean Tech.)]
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