Scope for Commercial Cultivation of Buchanania lanzan Spreng. in Sindhudurg District – A Review

Abstract

Sindhudurg district in Konkan region is the southernmost district of the region, sharing its northern border with Ratnagiri district; southern border with Goa state; on eastern side it has Kolhapur district. Sindhudurg is abundant in biodiversity. The whole district has numerous medicinal and economically important plants either cultivated or wild. Many of the wild plants are the sources for many crude drugs and aromatics. Though the region is rich in its biodiversity, the efforts taken for the conservation as well as cultivation practices are inadequate. Current communication deals with one of such commercially important plant. Buchanania lanzan grows in wild in the entire district. The seeds show natural germination and formation of new plants. But due to less awareness and lack of efforts to conserve these plantlets has resulted in mortality of such natural regeneration. ‘Charoli’ seeds are commercially important and supply in the local market is through collection by local people from forest area. No adequate efforts for the commercial cultivation were tried till date in this region. There is an opportunity to cultivate the ‘Charoli’ plants in the area under study on commercial basis.

Key Words: Buchanania, Charoli, Sindhudurg, Cultivation