22 Sep Export Potential, Nutritional Value and Commercial Cultivation of aquatic crop Makhana
जलीय फसल मखाना की निर्यात क्षमता, पोषण महत्व और वाणिज्यिक खेती Makhana (Euryale ferox Salisb.), Family Nymphaeaceae, is an important non-cereal aquatic crop cultivated in stagnant perennial water bodies like ponds, land depressions, oxbow lakes, swamps and ditches. Makhana is also commonly known as Fox nut and Gorgon nut, the propped seeds of makhana is eaten and also used in preparation of various kind of sweets and recipes. Makhana plant is distributed to almost every parts of the world and considered as a native of South-East Asia and China. In general, its distribution is mainly limited to tropical and sub-tropical regions of South-East Asia and also known to exist in Japan, Korea, Russia,...