Area and production

Area and production

    • Traditionally, India has been the largest supplier of lemon grass oil to the world market but has ceased to be so any longer.
    • The crop is under cultivation in India in an area of about 2000ha.
    • The production of oil which was 1800t in 1961 -62 has declined to about 400t at present.
    • The Indian monopoly in the lemon grass trade in the world market has been broken due to the entry of Guatemala and a few other Latin American states including Brazil and Mexico, Puerto Rico, Dominica, and China.

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