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pomegranate health benefits

All parts of the fruit, seed, rind, and membrane have been shown to have potential health benefits. One of the most studied constituent of pomegranates is a polyphenol call ellagic acid. Ellagic acid is found in the juice and seed oils. Ellagic acid has anti-cancer and anti-oxidant properties. Other constituents thought to have health benefits are anthocyanins (good for the vessels), vitamin C, gallic acid, catechins, quercetin, rutin, punicic acid, fatty acids and sterols. The seed oil has flavones and flavols with estrogen – like properties. Research regarding pomegranates is impressive because there are 
several good studies describing health benefits in humans, not just laboratory animals. The most impressive human studies addressed prostate cancer, atherosclerosis, coronary artery stenosis and hypertension. Human studies used fresh juice, undiluted and from the entire pomegranate fruit. 

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IMPORTANT OF PLASTIC MULCH IN POMEGRANATE

PLANTATION :

Mulching is a Agricultural practices to cover the soil with plastic or straw/wheat dust on the top of the 

 soil therefore, to control weed, excessive water evaporation & conserve soil moisture. Both organic & 

 inorganic mulching have great benefit for Pomegranate plantation in dry states of India.

Advantages of plastic mulching 

1. It is completely impermeable to water. 

 2. It prevents the direct evaporation of moisture from the soil and thus limits the water losses and conserves moisture. 

 3. By evaporation suppression, it prevents the rise of water containing salts.

 4. Mulch can facilitate fertilizer placement and reduce the loss of plant nutrient through leaching.

 5. Mulches can also provide a barrier to soil pathogens 

 6. Opaque mulches prevent germination of annual weeds from receiving light

 7. Reflective mulches will repel certain insects 

 8. Mulches maintain a warm temperature even during nighttime which enables seeds to germinate quickly and for young plants to rapidly establish a strong root growth system. 

 9.Synthetic mulches play a major role in soil solanization process. 

 10.Mulches develop a microclimatic underside of the sheet, which is higher in carbon-di-oxide due to the higher level of microbial activity. 

 11.Under mulch, the soil structure is maintained during cropping period

 12. Early germination almost 2-3 days.

 13. Better nodulation in crops like Groundnut.

 14. Less nematodes population.

 15.Water erosion is completely averted since soil is completely covered form bearing 

 action of rain drops.

 16.When compared to organic mulches, it serves for a longer period. 

Moisture conservation.

To keep Pomegranate plantation field clean therefore, fruit also be clean and growers get good  market  for their fruits 

 • Plastic film with its moisture barrier properties does not allow the soil moisture to escape Water that evaporates from the soil surface under mulch film, condenses on the lower surface of the film and falls back as droplets. 

 • Thus moisture is preserved for several days and increases the period between two irrigations. 

 • The irrigation water or rainfall either moves into the soil thru holes on the mulch around the plant area or through the unmulched area.

Weed control:

• Black plastic film does not allow the sunlight to pass through on to the soil

 • Photosynthesis does not take place in the absence of sunlight below black film hence, it arrests weed growth.

Limitations:

• There are costly to use in commercial production when compared to organic mulches.

 • Probability of ‘burning’ or ‘scorching’ of the young plants due to high Temperature of black film.

 • Difficulty in application of top dressed fertilizer 

 •Reptile movement and rodent activities are experienced in some places.

 • More runoff

 • Environmental pollution

 • Difficult in machinery movement

 • Can not be used for more than one season using thin mulches

 • Weed penetration with thin films

 •Toxic to livestock.

 Areas of application:

Mulching is mainly employed for 

a. Moisture conservation in rain-fed areas 

 b. Reduction of irrigation frequency and water saving in irrigated areas 

 c. Soil temperature moderation in greenhouse cultivation 

 d. Soil solorisation for control of soil borne diseases

 e. Reduce the rain impact, prevent soil erosion and maintain soil structure 

 f. In places where high value crops only to be cultivated.

 g. In the areas where high water scarcity like Rajasthan, Gujarat, Hariyana, Punjab in India, mulching will give better crop yield as compare to existing method.

Selection of mulch:

The selection of mulches depends upon the ecological situations and primary and secondary aspects of mulching 

 Rainy season ………………………………………..Perforated mulch.

 Orchard and plantation…………………………………………….Thicker mulch 

 Soil solarisation …………………………………………………..Thin transparent film 

 Weed control through solarisation ……………………………….Transparent film 

 Weed control in cropped land………………………………………….Black film 

 Sandy soil ……………………………………………………………………Black film 

 Saline soil use …………………………………………………………….Black film

 Summer cropped land ………………………………………………………White film 

 Insect repellent …………………………………………………………….Silver colour film 

 Early germination ……………………………………………………… Thinner film .

Conclusion:

 Selection of mulch in Pomegranate plantation will depend according to Agro- climatic condition 

 of a particular zone. We are realized the effect of plastic mulch in stevia, pomegranate, papaya in 

 dry state of India. Famers/growers both are benefited for adopting this technique in their field. 

 Production as well as cost of cultivation has been minimizing greatly. Weed nutrients uptake 

 competition greatly affect the plant growth & crop yield. So, we advice our growers to adopt 

 this technique to get better profit and control soil erosion as well as costing of cultivation.
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Pomegranate

Introduction

Common Name: Anar

Botanical Name: Punica Granatum

Origin: Iran, Afghanistan, India

The pomegranate tree is native from Himalayas in northern India to the Iran and has been cultivated since ancient times throughout the Mediterranean region of Asia, Africa and Europe. An attractive shrub or small tree, to 20 or 30 ft recorded height, the pomegranate is much-branched, more or less spiny, and extremely long-lived. It has a strong tendency to sucker from the base. The leaves are evergreen or deciduous, opposite or in whorls of 5 or 6, short-stemmed, oblong-lanceolate. Showy flowers are home on the branch tips singly or as many as 5 in a cluster. The fruit has a tough, leathery skin or rind, basically yellow more or less overlaid with light or deep pink or rich red. The interior is separated by membranous walls and white spongy tissue (rag) into compartments packed with transparent sacs filled with tart, flavourful, fleshy, juicy, red, pink or whitish pulp (technically the aril). In each sac, there is one white or red, angular, soft or hard seed. The seeds represent about 52% of the weight of the whole fruit. The fruit also was used in many ways as it is today and was featured in Egyptian mythology and art, praised in the Old Testament of the Bible and in the Babylonian Talmud, and it was carried by desert caravans for the sake of its thirst-quenching juice. It traveled to central and southern India from Iran about the first century A.D. and was reported growing in Indonesia in 1416. It has been widely cultivated throughout India and drier parts of Southeast Asia, Malaya, the East Indies and tropical Africa. The most important growing regions are Egypt, China, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Iran, Iraq, India, Burma and Saudi Arabia. There are some commercial orchards in Israel on the coastal plain and in the Jordan Valley.

The name "pomegranate" comes from two Latin words for "seeded" and "apple", which makes a lot of sense, given that a pomegranate looks like and apple and is full of seeds. The pomegranate fruit grows on a small tree or shrub. The tree is native to the area of Persia in the Middle East, but it is now grown further abroad, including in California and Arizona. The most promising of these is the Wonderful which is the only pomegranate now being grown commercially in California.

The interior seeds are surrounded by spongy pulp, and the mess of them together makes the pomegranate particularly difficult to work with.

Steeped in history and romance and almost in a class by itself, the pomegranate, Punica granatum L., belongs to the family Punicaceae which includes only one genus and two species, the other one, little-known, being P. protopunica Balf. peculiar to the island of Socotra.

Despite its ancient background, the pomegranate has acquired only a relatively few commonly recognized vernacular names apart from its many regional epithets in India, most of which are variations on the Sanskrit dadimaor dalim, and the Persian dulim or dulima. By the French it is called grenade; by the Spanish, granada (the fruit), granado (the plant); by the Dutch, granaatappel, and Germans, granatapfel; by the Italians, melogranato, melograno granato, pomo granato, or pomo punico. In Indonesia, it is gangsalan; in Thailand, tab tim; and in Malaya, delima. Brazilians know it as roma, romeira or romazeira. The Quecchi Indian name in Guatemala is granad. The Samoan name is limoni. The generic term, Punica, was the Roman name for Carthage from whence the best pomegranates came to Italy.