Brief Description about Guar Seed:-
The guar bean is principally grown in India and Pakistan, with smaller crops grown in the U.S., Australia, China, and Africa. In India, Rajasthan and Gujarat are the main producing regions, andJodhpur in Rajasthan is a major Guar trading market.
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India produces 600,000 tons of guar annually[2] i.e. the maximum level of production in the world. It contributes about 80% of the world's total production. The major producing regions of this crop in India are
- Rajasthan
- Gujarat
- Haryana
- Punjab
- Uttar Pradesh
- Madhya Pradesh
- Tamil Nadu
- Maharashtra
- Karnataka
- Andhra Pradesh
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Projected India Seed Crop + Carryover: 4.5 million + 3.0 million bags = 7.5 million bags of 100 kg each (splits/powder production potential of up to nearly 200,000 MT, although there is normally at least 1 million bags of carryover).
(For comparison, India in 2004 produced 4 million bags crop + 5 million bags carryover = 9 million bags).
Global Demand was 650,000 MT seeds +/- 10%. However the demand now far outstrips the supply due to the use of Guar bean in Fracking. Currently the market can not meet demand.
Chemically, guar gum is a polysaccharide composed of the sugarsgalactose and mannose. The backbone is a linear chain of β 1,4-linked mannose residues to which galactose residues are 1,6-linked at every second mannose, forming short side-branches.