MEDICINAL AND AROMATIC CROPS (2+1)

Origin and distribution

• C. cinerariaefolium is a native of Dalmatia, Herzegovina and Montenegro and is cultivated on a commercial scale in Algeria, Yugoslavia (Dalmatia), Brazil, Bulgaria, Japan, Kenya, New Guinea, Congo, Tanzania, Ecuador, Australia, USA, China, France, Italy, Persia, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, England and India.
  


• Kenya and its neighbours Tanzania and Rwanda produce over 80% of the total pyrethrum produced in the world.


• The experimental cultivation of pyrethrum in India was under-taken in Kashmir in 1931 and in the Nilgiri hills in the early years of World War II (1942).
  


• At present, it is successfully grown in several parts of India (Kashmir, Kodaikanal, Lucknow) on a commercial scale.