Mahua flower Mandla

Mandla- The intoxicating fragrance of Mahua flower is spreading all around the forest, attracting passersby too. Tell that Mahua flowers have matured. To collect this flower, the villagers along with their families go towards the forests and fields since morning.

During this, for safety, sticks and Mahua flowers are carried along with them in their hands. As the intensity of the sun increases, the flowers fall from the Mahua tree. The villagers, who went towards the forest and fields, collect flowers and reach their homes by 12 noon. After 12 o'clock these flowers stop dripping, according to the information, as soon as the summer season starts, the tribal villagers, villagers of Vananchal area have become busy in picking Mahua. These days the work of picking Mahua in rural areas is in progress. People get up early in the morning and reach under the Mahua trees.

So that the cattle should not eat the flowers that have fallen from the Mahua tree. Mahua is an additional source of income in the area, people pick raw mahua and dry it in the sun, after that

Taking it to the market and selling it, this Mahua is a means of additional income for the villagers. Due to which the villagers get financial help from the collection of this yellow gold.

Let us tell you that even today Mahua remains a means of livelihood in tribal areas. Mahua is the main source of livelihood for the forest dwellers in the remote Vananchal of the district, which the villagers are currently busy picking up. Along with the whole family, they go out early in the morning to collect Mahua engaged in forests and farm barns.

The forest dwellers go through different paths in the early morning with baskets in their hands towards the forests for the collection of minor forest produce. In rural areas, women leave early in the morning to collect Mahua, who return by 12 noon.

Build scaffolding outside your courtyard or house, dry Mahua on top of it. At present, the initial season of Mahua is going on in the summer season due to which the rural families are busy in picking Mahua.

Main sources for additional income:

These days, in many rural areas, people take care of Mahua in the forests and fields itself. Gradually the arrival of Mahua will increase, at present, rural families will be seen more in less forests in the village. Although Mahua crop this time is relatively.

This time the mood of the weather is also fine, due to which the arrival of Mahua crop is good. In some places the arrival of Mahua crop is less. Villagers told that Mahua is the main source for running the family expenses for two-three months.

Selling Mahua earns 10 to 15 thousand in a season. At present, the market rate of new Mahua is running at Rs 40 to 50 per kg. At the same time, some traders buy at throwaway prices.

Nutritious food for animals:

Mahua flowers are juicy and sweet. There is a fierce competition among insects and moths to suck them. The poor people get firewood from Mahua for fuel throughout the year. Due to the medicinal properties of its bark, fruit and flower, they are also used in Ayurvedic treatment.

Its leaves and flowers are rich in nutrients, so they are excellent nutritious food for animals. Feeding them increases both the quality and quantity of milk in the animal. Its strong wood is used for making doors, furniture etc. Villagers get additional income from Mahua trees throughout the year.

Madhuca longifolia is AN Indian tropical tree found for the most part within the central, southern, north Indian plains and forests, Nepal, Asian nation and Ceylon. it's ordinarily called ordinarily, madkam, mahuwa, Butter Tree, mahua, mahwa, mohulo, Iluppai or vippa chettu.Ji it's a invasive tree that grows to or so twenty meters tall, possesses evergreen or semi-evergreen foliage, and belongs to the magnoliopsid family.It is variable to arid environments, being a distinguished tree in tropical mixed deciduous forests in Bharat within the states of Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, state, Bihar, geographical region, state, Madhya Pradesh, Kerala, Gujarat, West Bengal and province

Uses

It is cultivated in heat and wet regions for its oleaginous seeds (producing between twenty and two hundred kilo of seeds annually per tree, betting on maturity), flowers and wood. The fat (solid at close temperature) is employed for the care of the skin, to manufacture soap or detergents, and as a vegetable butter. It can even be used as a oil. The seed cakes obtained when extraction of oil represent excellent fertiliser. The flowers ar wont to turn out AN alcoholic immerse tropical Bharat. This drink is additionally proverbial to have an effect on animals.[4] many elements of the tree, as well as the bark, ar used for his or her healthful properties. it's thought of holy by several social group communities owing to its utility.

M. longifolia in Hyderabad, India

The leaves of Madhuca indica (= M. longifolia) ar gobbled by the lepidopteron Antheraea paphia, that produces tassar silk, a type of wild silk of business importance in Bharat.[5] Leaves, flowers and fruits also are lopped off to feed goats and sheep.[6]

The Tamils have many uses for M. longifolia (iluppai in Tamil). the old saying "aalai illaa oorukku iluppaip poo charkkarai" indicates once there's no cane sugar on the market, the flower of M. longifolia will be used, because it is incredibly sweet. However, Tamil tradition cautions that excessive use of this flower can end in imbalance of thinking and should even result in lunacy.[7]

The alkaloids within the press cake of mahua seeds is reportedly utilized in killing fishes in cultivation ponds in some elements of Bharat. The cake serves to fertilise the lake, which might be drained, sun dried, refilled with water and restocked with fish fingerlings.

Mahua Flowes

Mahua flowers

The mahua flower is edible and may be a food item for tribals. They use it to form sirup for healthful functions.

Mahua flowers ar made in total sugars, out of that reducing sugar ar gift in high quantity. The flowers also are soured to provide the alcoholic drink mahua, a rustic liquor.Tribals of Surguja and Bastar in Chhattisgarh and peoples of Western Orissa, Santhals of Santhal Paraganas (Jharkhand), Koya tribals of North-East state, Bhil tribals in western Madhya Pradesh and tribals of North geographical region contemplate the tree and therefore the mahua drink as a part of their cultural heritage. Mahua is a necessary drink for social group men and ladies throughout celebrations.

Mahua fruit ar a necessary food of Western Odisha individuals. The tree features a nice cultural significance. There ar many sorts of food ready with its fruits and flowers. Also, Western Odisha individuals wont to pray to the present tree throughout festivals. The liquor created from the flowers is essentially colourless, opaque and not terribly sturdy. it's cheap and therefore the production is essentially worn out home stills.[citation needed]

Mahua flowers also are wont to manufacture jam, that is created by social group co-operatives within the Gadchiroli district of geographical region.

Mahua

Apart from that there's another company situated in Wardha district of geographical region," Sevagram Agro Industries" WHO ar dealing in Mahua product at terribly massive scale and exportation innovative product like seed oil and Mahua Jam to Arab countries.

In several elements of state, like villages within the district of Jewish calendar month, the flowers of mahua tree ar preserved; these sun-dried flowers ar ground to flour and wont to build varied styles of breads.

Literature

Wine ready from Madhūka flowers (Madhuca longifolia) finds mention in many Hindu and Buddhist literature works.

Kali WHO is seated on a red lotus fully bloom, her lovely face beaming, observance observance, who, drunk with the delicious wine of the Madhuka flower, is performing arts before her..

— Mahānirvaņa Tantra