Environment

Government in Gujarat has initiated the method of patenting the name of the variety of dragon fruit grown in Gujarat as ‘kamalam’, that is additionally the name of the state party headquarters.

·        Dragon fruit is that the fruit of a species of wild cactus autochthonous to South and Central America, wherever its referred to as pitaya or pitahaya.

·        The world’s largest producer and businessperson of dragon fruit is Vietnam, where the plant was brought by the

·        French within the 19th century. Dragon fruit is additionally cultivated in — except for its native Latin America — Siam, Taiwan, China, Australia, Israel, and sri lanka.

·         It was delivered to India within the 1990s, and is fully grown in Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Odisha, West Bengal, andhra pradesh, and Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

·         5/8 It grows all told styles of soil, and doesnt need a lot of water. About the proposal ICAR sources aforementioned the Gujarat government’s proposal had been forwarded to the Union Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare.

·        Whatever word, unharness of types, production, its all done by the Department of Agriculture and Cooperation.

·        ICAR officers aforementioned such a proposal would want approval from the botanic Survey of India and also the National multifariousness Authority under the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and temperature change.

·         Dragon fruit isnt a species native to India and any amendment in its word in official annals will cause international proceeding. Hence, the opinion of BSI and NBA matters.