{"id":228426,"date":"2023-02-24T20:33:12","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T15:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=228426"},"modified":"2023-02-24T20:33:12","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T15:03:12","slug":"himachal-pradesh-to-become-first-state-in-india-to-have-organized-cultivation-of-mulethi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/himachal-pradesh-to-become-first-state-in-india-to-have-organized-cultivation-of-mulethi\/","title":{"rendered":"Himachal Pradesh to become first state in India to have organized cultivation of Mulethi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cHimachal Pradesh to become first state in India to have organized cultivation of Mulethi\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>TOI on 23rd February 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Himachal Pradesh has become the first state in India to start the organized commercial cultivation of <\/span><b>Licorice (Mulethi).<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is Mulethi?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mulethi commonly known as licorice, is an important sweet-tasting perennial shrub.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has a sweet taste due<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to the presence of glycyrrhizin, which is 50 times sweeter than sucrose.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Suitable climate for cultivation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The plant thrives in a dry and sunny climate and is cultivated in subtropical and warm temperate regions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Uses: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is used as a natural sweetener in herbal medicines, flavouring in candies and tobacco.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 It is also used in traditional medicines for treating chest and lung diseases, pneumonia, bronchitis, kidney and heart diseases, coughs, low blood pressure, liver toxicity and pancreatic disorders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Cultivation: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mulethi is grown mainly in Afghanistan, while minor producing countries include Pakistan, China, Nepal and India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 India imports 8,047 tonnes of liquorice annually from Afghanistan, China and Nepal.To reduce these imports, India has started the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">organized cultivation of Mulethi.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cHimachal Pradesh to become first state in India to have organized cultivation of Mulethi\u201d published in TOI on 23rd February 2023 What is the News? Himachal Pradesh has become the first state in India to start the organized commercial cultivation of Licorice (Mulethi). What is Mulethi? Mulethi&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/himachal-pradesh-to-become-first-state-in-india-to-have-organized-cultivation-of-mulethi\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Himachal Pradesh to become first state in India to have organized cultivation of Mulethi<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9],"tags":[11303,7697,11302,10496],"class_list":["post-228426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-cultivation-of-mulethi","tag-himachal-pradesh","tag-mulethi","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}