cultivation practices of lavandula spp

1. PACKAGE OF PRACTICE
LAVENDER

2. • Botanical name – lavandula spp
• Family – lamiaceae
• Origin place – meditarian region
• Uses – perfumery industry

3. IMPORTANCE AND CHEMICAL COMPOSITION
• LAVENDER is a small genus of perenial
aromatic herbs and shrub .
• It include about 28 spp .
• Only 3 spp are cultivated
• l. angustifolia , l . latifolia , l. hybrida .
• Its main constituent is the easter , linalyl
acetate .
• which range from 30-60 % .

4. ORIGIN AND DISTRIBUTION
• Lavender is indigenous to the meditarian regin
• It is cultivated several other countries in
europe .

5. Area and production
• In india it is cultivated kashmir valley , HP, UP.
• No data is avilable on area and prodution of
levender in india .

6. SOIL and climate
• Light well-aerated, dry and calcareous with
enough nutrients is best suited for lavender
cultivation .
• water logged soil are unsuitable for its
cultivation .
• Ph range from 7-8.4 .
• Levender is a temperate photophyllus plant .
• It is resistance to drought and frost .

7. PROPAGATION
• levender may reproduce it self in two ways ;
by seed and vegetatively .
• Seed reproduction is cheap and quick .
• It is cross pollinated .
• vegetatively by cutting .

8. VARIETIES
• Some imp clone AM-1, AM-2, AM -3, A-5, A-7 ,
A-8 , A- 9
• These are the high yielding clones .

9. IRRIGATION
• During the dry period , the crop must be
irrigated frequently to obtained a good spike
yield .

10. INTERCULTURE
• During the first two year of planting 2-3
cultivations along the row and 5-6 cultivations
b/w the rows .
• To the depth of 8-10 cm are required .

11. HARVESTING AND YIELD
• The plants are harvested once blooming has
started .
• The whole plant leaving the basal one-thirs of
the plant for natural regeneration is harvested
• The fresh herbage is use of steam distillation .
• About 10 tonnes of fresh herbage is obtained
in one hactare.

12. EXTRACTION OF ESSENTIAL OIL
• The herbage is distilled using steam distillation
method .
• The essential oil contant in different varieties
varies fron 0.5% to 1.1% with 0.8% as the
average oil content

13. THANKS