rudraksha

[shantaraman]

i would like to know how and where and at what kind of climate rudraksha plantation can be done.and what are the marketing advantage and profit.

 

[ponsanthan]

Rudraksha requires humid climate and evergreen forest or shola atmosphere. Places like western ghat where the rain fall is high and thick forest without much disturbance by human activities. it can be grown areas with annual rainfall of 200 to 300 cent meters. Mostly wild rudraksha meets our requirement, south east asian belt from sikkim Himalays to Malasia harbours nice trees of Rudraksh. For our interest we can grow in places with high rainfall and good soil. more than 10 species of Elaeocarpus available in western ghats.