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    Guggul is a plant native to India and Bangladesh known for its use in treating arthritis, obesity, and ulcers. It grows as a woody shrub in dry, rocky soils. Major production areas are in Gujarat and Rajasthan. The plant can be propagated through seeds or stem cuttings treated with IBA to improve rooting. Mature plants are tapped for resin collection from December to February by making incisions and collecting the exuded gum. The gum is graded based on quality, with thicker branches producing higher grades. Chemical analysis finds the resin contains terpenes like myrcene and yields increase over time to 1600 grams per plant after 6 years.

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    Guggul is a plant native to India and Bangladesh known for its use in treating arthritis, obesity, and ulcers. It grows as a woody shrub in dry, rocky soils. Major production areas are in Gujarat and Rajasthan. The plant can be propagated through seeds or stem cuttings treated with IBA to improve rooting. Mature plants are tapped for resin collection from December to February by making incisions and collecting the exuded gum. The gum is graded based on quality, with thicker branches producing higher grades. Chemical analysis finds the resin contains terpenes like myrcene and yields increase over time to 1600 grams per plant after 6 years.

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    Guggul is a plant native to India and Bangladesh known for its use in treating arthritis, obesity, and ulcers. It grows as a woody shrub in dry, rocky soils. Major production areas are in Gujarat and Rajasthan. The plant can be propagated through seeds or stem cuttings treated with IBA to improve rooting. Mature plants are tapped for resin collection from December to February by making incisions and collecting the exuded gum. The gum is graded based on quality, with thicker branches producing higher grades. Chemical analysis finds the resin contains terpenes like myrcene and yields increase over time to 1600 grams per plant after 6 years.

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    Guggul is a plant native to India and Bangladesh known for its use in treating arthritis, obesity, and ulcers. It grows as a woody shrub in dry, rocky soils. Major production areas are in Gujarat and Rajasthan. The plant can be propagated through seeds or stem cuttings treated with IBA to improve rooting. Mature plants are tapped for resin collection from December to February by making incisions and collecting the exuded gum. The gum is graded based on quality, with thicker branches producing higher grades. Chemical analysis finds the resin contains terpenes like myrcene and yields increase over time to 1600 grams per plant after 6 years.

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    INFORMATION ABOUT CULTIVATION OF GUGGUL S ESWARA REDDY

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    Guggul is well known in Indian as well as in British Pharma-company for its use in rheumatoid arthritis, obesity and peptic ulcer. It is astringent and antiseptic. It acts as a bitter, stomach ace carminative and stimulant to the appetite. The plant is still found in Rajasthan Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Bangladesh. Major guggul producing centers are kutch forest division in Gujarat and Jodhpurs forest division in Rajasthan. Due to increasing demand of Guggul it has become imperative that steps should be taken for its scientific and extraction.

    Description of Plant:
    The plant is a woody shrub with knotty, crooked, sping brown bracts, leaves 1-3 foliate leaf lets, sessile with serrated margin. Flowers are pinkish unisexual. Fruit is drops red, ovate with two celled stone. The ash colored bark comes off in flakes exposing the under bark which also peals off in thin papery tolls. The shrub defoliates in winter and reserves for gugul gum extraction is high during April-May

    Climate and Soil:


    It usually occurs in and regions, hills, but it can be grown in warm and semi and regions on hill tops, preferring hard, rocky soils off North west India. It is also considered as a drought aria salinity resistant plant. It prefers loams to sandy loam soils with pH ranging between 7.5 to. 9.0. Soils are coarse textured, well drained and calcareous soils are generally poor in organic carbon, nitrogen, high in potash ion, magnesium, zinc and copper, medium in phosphorus and calcium.

    Propagation by Seed
    Seeds are the major propagation source in nature. In Rajasthan and nearby arid regions flowers and seeds are constantly produced by C wightii except in winter season. April May

    seeds are less viable compared to July to September seeds. Monsoon, season creates conducive atmosphere for germination. The temperature after monsoon ranges between 30 - 37C maximum 20-25 C minimum with high relative humidity. Mature seeds are washed along with clay and soil to the crevasses between rocks and germinate there,

    2. Propagation By Cuttings:
    It can be successfully propagated vegetatively by stem cuttings. Cuttings are planted in June at a depth of 15 cm for raising them in nursery. Proper soil moisture is necessary for better rooting. The rooting begins after 21 days from 30 cm long stem cutting having 1.5 2.0 cm diameter IBA @ 250 ppm) treatment of stem cuttings is beneficial which enhances the rooti8ng to nearly 70% as against 30% under normal conditions. The plants are kept in nursery for 6 months and during the monsoon rooted cutting are transplanted in the field at a spacing of 2 x 2 meters.

    Tapping and Collection:


    After achieving the physiological maturity of plant the gum resin is tapped during Dec. and Feb. Plant attaining 7.5 cm diameter is suitable for tapping the gum resin. Usually 1.5 cm deep circular incisions are made on the main branches and stems at uniform distance of 30 cm and at an angle of 60 manually. The yellowish white fragrant latex oozes out through the incision and slowly soliidifies into vermicular pieces which are collected manually or with spear. Subsequently collection is done at the interval of 10-15 days.

    Grading:
    The best grade of guggul is collected from the thick branches of tree. These lumps of guggul are translucent Second grade guggul is usually mixed with bark, sand and is dull coloured guggul. Third grade guggul is usually collected from the ground which is mixed with sand stones and other foreign matter. The final grading is done after getting cleansed material. Interior grades are improved by sprinkling castor oil over the heaps of the guggul which impart a shining appearance.

    Chemical Constituents:
    The resin is transparent in the form of thin film but transparent or even opaque in bulk. It is completely soluble in most of the organic solvent and in castor oil drying and turpentine oil. It mixes with stearic acid, vegetable waxes and resins.The essential oil (0.38%), obtained by steam distillation of oleo - resin of C. weightii is composed of chiefly terpermes like myrcene (64%), dimyrcene (11%) polymyrcene and cryophylene.

    Yield:
    Starting from sixth year the guggul gum yield increases from 200 gm to 400 gm per plant. The total guggul gum yield within five year comes to be 1600 gm per plant corresponding to 3200 kg per ha @ 2000 plants per ha. 14th

    DEC. 2012

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