FACTORS OF CERTAIN PLANTS GROWN COMERCIALLY IN SOME COUNTRIES.

FACTORS OF CERTAIN PLANTS GROWN COMERCIALLY IN SOME COUNTRIES.

There are many factors that influence certains plants grown commercially in some countries, but not in others place. Those are consists of the geographic of that country, the climate, the soil, the water, and many more. Geographic means that, some country locate on chatulistiwa line, so it may have tropical climate, but in other country locates near the pole of earth. The climate may influence certain plants that may grow. Usually certain plants may grow if only support by the certain temperature. Soil and water may effect the plants that may grow too.
In this paragraph, let’s learn from the case that is experienced by some countries. This species spends most of its life in fresh water, and it can be grown in brackish water, in salinities up to 8 ppt. A successful culture system was developed for Macrobrachium in Malaysia several years ago, and this has been adapted as a commercial operation in Indonesia, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, the Philippines and elsewhere. This animal does not occur in The Bahamas. Its culture would be difficult here because of the shortage of fresh or low salinity water. The potential for freshwater prawn culture is poor. For other example, Apple, which are very deciduous fruits commercially grown in the world today come from the family of plants Rosaceae. Usually, Apple may grow in the north temperate zone, such as Europe, Asia and North America. But now, Apple can be conducted which temperate is colder than Australia. The way is drop the leaves on the autumn, and then break the buds in the spring, when the weather become warmer than before, So that, we may taste the different of apple’s quality especially from Asia or USA. For other example, we may learn from Egypt. Egypt is a country with very lack of water, not only water but also the characteristic of the soil. Contain of the soil is not support to develop an agriculture area, because the soil is very dry. Only certain plants may grow in that place, such as cactus or date’s fruits. Those kinds of fruits may grow only require a little water, So that, Egypt is in very poor condition with that limited condition of plants and other natural resources. A number of countries commercially cultivate and export substantial quantities of medicinal plants. These countries include China, India, Thailand, South Korea, Brazil, Mexico, Egypt, Indonesia, Nepal, the Philippines, and Kenya. Eastern European countries cultivate medicinal plants as well, but mostly for their own consumption (Wijesekera, 1991). For example Indonesia and China, have certain plants that support in medical things. China have many plants, that called herbal, which can be used to heal the unhealthy people. There so many variety of herbal, depend on the disease. Indonesia have some too, Indonesia is located in “chatulistiwa” line, so that Indonesia is very rich country of natural resources and plants. Some factors that Indonesia had been colonized by others country is because Indonesia have many commercially plants that can be traded. The plants are very beneficial and rareness in some countries, such as plants called, “palawija”.
The last paragraph is solution to overcome the problem of certain plants grown commercially in each country. Biotechnology can be the one of the solution. Plant biotechnology is a process to produce a genetically modified plant by removing genetic information from an organism, manipulating it in the laboratory and then transferring it into a plant to change certain of its characteristics. The source of the genetic information can be any living organism. Biotechnology can be applied in many countries. For another example, in Egypt was built Egyptian Biodynamic Association (EBDA). This Biodynamic is very useful to develop agriculture area in Egypt. This biodynamic agriculture is a method of organic farming that treats farms as unified and individual organisms, emphasizing balancing the holistic development and interrelationship of the soil, plants, animals as a closed, self-nourishing system. Many more solution can be used, so that our plants may be owned in our beloved country.

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Putri Utami (10205049)