{"id":325717,"date":"2025-02-04T19:12:25","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T13:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=325717"},"modified":"2025-02-04T19:12:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T13:42:25","slug":"makhana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/makhana\/","title":{"rendered":"Makhana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>News: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Union Budget 2025 announced the establishment of a <\/span><b>Makhana Board<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Bihar, bringing renewed attention to Makhana.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Makhana<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Makhana (Fox Nut)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is the <\/span><b>dried seed<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the <\/span><b>prickly water lily plant (Euryale ferox)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It grows in <\/span><b>freshwater ponds, lakes, and wetlands<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> across <\/span><b>South and East Asia<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>outer seed coat is black<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which is why it is often called <\/span><b>\u2018Black Diamond.\u2019<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Mithila Makhana <\/b>received a<b> Geographical Indication (GI) <\/b>tag in <b>2022<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Production:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Bihar produces 90% of India\u2019s makhana, mainly in <strong>nine districts:<\/strong> Darbhanga, Madhubani, Purnea, Katihar, Saharsa, Supaul, Araria, Kishanganj, and Sitamarhi.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Makhana is also grown in <strong>Assam, Manipur, West Bengal, Tripura, Odisha,<\/strong> as well as in Nepal, Bangladesh, China, Japan, and Korea.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Climatic condition for Makhana Cultivation:<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>T<\/strong><b>emperature:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 20-35\u00b0C <\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Rainfall:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 100-250 cm and <\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Humidity:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 50-90%<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table style=\"width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; background-color: #e6f0ef;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><b>About Makhana Board<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The board has been allocated<\/span><b> \u20b9100 crore<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to develop the Makhana industry.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The<\/span><b> key objectives <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of the Makhana Board are:\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Train farmers in export-oriented production and support Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Attract investments in food processing units<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Develop export infrastructure (cargo facilities at Bihar\u2019s airports)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ensure farmers get access to government schemes<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Increasing production and processing<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Improve farming techniques to increase production.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The Union Budget 2025 announced the establishment of a Makhana Board in Bihar, bringing renewed attention to Makhana.\u00a0 About Makhana Makhana (Fox Nut) is the dried seed of the prickly water lily plant (Euryale ferox). It grows in freshwater ponds, lakes, and wetlands across South and East Asia. The outer seed coat is black,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/makhana\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Makhana<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,12039],"tags":[12054,10500],"class_list":["post-325717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-knolls","tag-9pm-factly","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325717","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\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}