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Agricultural Research Institute Pusa. The Cultivation of Lac in the Plains of India (Tachardia Lacca Kerr)

1912

That which is gathered during June-July is called the Baisakhi crop from the name of the month Baisakh in which the crop is generally collected and the other the Katiki—from Kartik the month in which the crop is gathered. [...] In the beginning the trees require to be pruned but later on the removal of the labearing branches is a pruning of the trees. [...] The trees in the first group are to be pruned in February and inoculated in the following June whilst the trees in the second group or block are to be pruned for the following October inoculation. [...] Throughout the country the local dates of emergence of the tiny insects vary considerably according to the food-plant on which they grow and the climatic conditions prevailing in the locality. [...] In the days when prices for stick-lac were high and the lac-dye (colouring matter obtained by washing the stick-lac with water) was a marketable prduct the growers used to collect almost all the lac before the emegence of the larval so as to get the largest quantity of lac-dye and in consequence very little brood-lac was actually left on the trees for the following crop.
agriculture environment
Pages
51
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100186
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-i C.S. Misra view
Frontmatter
i-v C.S. Misra view
The Cultivation of Lac in the Plains of India. (Tachardia Lacca Kerr.)
1-27 C.S. Misra view
Appendix
28-32 C.S. Misra view
Backmatter
3-6 C.S. Misra view

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