Orange production in second spell drops 60 pc in Jhalawar district of Rajasthan
Kota (Rajasthan), Apr 10: Adverse climatic conditions and insufficient rainfall last year in the Jhalawar district have adversely affected orange production, which has dropped by about 60 per cent this year in the second spell of flowering.
Over the years, oranges from Jhalawar have come to be recognised better in taste than the variety of orange grown in Maharashtra’s Nagpur, famous for production of oranges.
Orange is produced in over 40,000 hectare of land in Dug, Bhawanimandi and Pedawa Jhalrapatan areas of the Jhalawar district, fetching yield in lakhs of metric tons from the second spell of flowering of fruit, P K Gupta, joint director of horticulture department, Jhalawar, said.