agriculture review
by aditya abhishek
Sunflower exhibit heliotropism, i.e., young sunflower heads tracks the direction of the sun during early daytime.
A single flower of sunflower can have around 2000 seeds. So if you grow one sunflower plant, you can produce so many!
Birds love to eat sunflower seeds. Therefore, bird lovers use dried sunflower heads as natural bird feeders.
The tallest sunflower plant in the world has grown up to 30 feet in height, while the smallest grew only up to 2.5 inches.
The sunflower plant originated in America. But domestication started 3000 to 5000 years ago by Native Americans.
People use sunflower oil in food and cosmetic formulations because the Linoleic acid in oil has an anti-inflammatory effect.
In 2018, Ukraine and Russia produced around 53% of the world’s total sunflower oil & the total production of sunflower oil in the world was 18 million tonnes.
Sunflowers are generally yellow in colour, but few varieties can also be red or purple in colour.
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