{"id":1390,"date":"2015-01-24T17:04:35","date_gmt":"2015-01-24T17:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/?p=1390"},"modified":"2015-01-24T17:04:35","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T17:04:35","slug":"yield-productivity-and-toxicity-challenges-in-castor-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/2015\/01\/yield-productivity-and-toxicity-challenges-in-castor-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Yield, Productivity and Toxicity Challenges in Castor Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are three major issues with respect to castor yield and productivity challenges. They are<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Castor cultivation of crop on marginal lands without inputs <strong>(fertilizers and irrigation)<\/strong> produces poor yields<\/li>\n<li>Lack of improved varieties and hybrids<\/li>\n<li>Lack of mechanization in cultivation &amp; harvesting<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Toxicity Challenge<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The ricin in castor crop is a barrier to its cultivation in many developed countries \u2013 especially US and parts of Europe<\/li>\n<li>GM castor with no ricin could be a solution<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Apart from this, there are other challenges faced in castor industry. They are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Difficulty in further expansion of area in India primarily due to lack of seed marketing to non-traditional areas<\/li>\n<li>Grown under rain-fed condition without following improved package of practices<\/li>\n<li>Lack of suitable cultivars for intercropping system<\/li>\n<li>Lack of resistant\/ tolerant varieties\/hybrids for eating caterpillars and macrophomma disease<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are three major issues with respect to castor yield and productivity challenges. They are Castor cultivation of crop on marginal lands without inputs (fertilizers and irrigation) produces poor yields Lack of improved varieties and hybrids Lack of mechanization in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/2015\/01\/yield-productivity-and-toxicity-challenges-in-castor-industry\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-1390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-castor-cultivation","tag-castor-yields"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1390"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1412,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions\/1412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}