Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Jamrul A Juicy Fruit of Bangladesh

Jamrul
Jamrul
Bunches of Jamruls dangling from trees in the township. (Right) Ready to eat Jamruls Its organic products are delighted in more for their fresh composition than for their flavor. The natural product in itself is watery and marginally sweet. Its skin is meager, its juice vapid.

Regularly known as Water Apple or Java Apple in whatever is left of the world, Bengal knows this organic product as the great old Jamrul. The Jamrul started from the district in the middle of Malaysia and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, where they develop as wild trees in the seaside woodlands. Be that as it may, it has now been presented in numerous Asian nations including Bangladesh and India. 


This evergreen tree of the Myrtaceae family develops to a tallness of 5m to 12m. It has rough leaves that are somewhere around 10cm and 25cm expansive. It has a short trunk with wide-spreading crown and pinkish-dark chipping bark. Amidst the organic product there may be maybe a couple, to some degree adjusted, seeds or no seed by any stretch of the imagination. The yellowish-white blooms of the Jamrul are around 2.5cm in width and are borne at the branch tips or in a littler group in axils of fallen takes off. They are fragrant with four petals and various stamens.

The alluring organic products take after chime formed berries. Whenever full grown, the natural product will puff outwards with a slight concavity in the center. The shade of the organic products ranges from white to light green. Some of the time another assortment of Water Apple — pink organic products with an elastic composition — are seen yet these are not prevalent in Bengal.


Red Jamrul
Apel Jamrul
Development: This eatable natural product tree is being developed in a restricted scale in home patio nurseries and little ranches. In Salt Lake homes Jamrul trees are developed in terraces for their organic products and additionally for decorative purposes. Considering its interest in the business sector, Jamrul development is being endeavored on a business scale now. Despite the fact that Water Apple can develop on an extensive variety of soils, a ripe very much depleted loamy soil is generally suitable.


High climatic dampness is fundamental amid the blooming to organic product set period. Pits of around 1m x 1m x 1m in size are burrowed around 6m to 8m separated and filled around a month prior to planting. While burrowing, the top soil and subsoil ought to be kept independently. Pits ought to be filled first with sub soil, very much blended with 20kg of farmstead fertilizer and after that loaded with top soil blended with 10kg of barnyard excrement, 500g super phosphate and 250g potash. Planting ought to be done just before blustery season and plants ought to be watered in the wake of planting.


Assortments: There is no particular assortment of this natural product. However this may be separated in two fundamental sorts - one having white products of the soil other with pink natural products. Engendering: The Water Apple is spread either by layering or by stem-cutting.


Tree administration: Jamrul plants are for the most part prepared by development propensities. Preparing is done to give the tree a legitimate shape and to build up a solid structure of branches. The highest point of the plant is made a beeline for 30cm to animate the development of horizontal branches at the season of planting.


Water Apples requires every fundamental supplement for better development and quality organic products. A grown-up tree ought to be sustained 20 kg to 25kg of well-spoiled cowdung compost each year. For each tree a 250g to 1kg blend of oilcake and urea in a 3:1 extent would be gainful. In any case, it ought to be connected in the wake of observing the development rate. Fertilizer can be connected before all else of rainstorm.

Water Jamrul
White Jamrul
Reaping and organic product utilizes: The Water Apple comes into bearing following three to five years of planting in the field and the plants prove to be fruitful for around 20 years. The yielding limit increments with the age of the plant. Be that as it may, organic products on the trees don't achieve the right picking stage in the meantime so pick the developed natural products first and give the others opportunity to achieve development.


Jamruls must be culled precisely, in light of the fact that wounded organic products create decays effectively. The natural products are by and large served uncut and eaten new. In a few places the natural products are utilized to make pickles. Their astringent blossoms are said to stop fever and looseness of the bowels and they have low vitality esteem. The sugar level in ready Jamruls is around 4g for each 100g yet there is decent lot of Vitamin C in it. Natural products are reaped just for neighborhood market.


The red hard wood of the Water Apple tree is utilized for developing hovels as a part of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

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