V.S. AcharyaTARA YADAV2023-10-202023-10-202017https://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810199541Cumin (Cuminum cyminum) is important seed spice crop commonly known as Jeera belongs to family Apiaceae. It is a drought tolerant, tropical or subtropical crop. The stem of plants are slender and branched, rarely exceeding 1 feet in height and somewhat angular. The leaves are divided into long, narrow segments like fennel, but much smaller and are of a deep green colour, generally turned black at the ends. The upper leaves are nearly stalking less, but the lower ones have longer leaf stalks. The flowers are small, rose-colored or white, in stalked umbels with only four to six rays, each of which are only about 1/3 inch long. They are oblong in shape, thicker in the middle, compressed laterally about 5 inch long, resembling caraway seeds, but lighter in colour and bristly instead of smooth, almost straight, instead of being curved.EnglishThesis