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Table 5 (continued)
Sl. No Host plants
Family
Common name
Strain
Suitable crop
14.
Flemingia
macrophylla
(Willd.) Merr.
Fabaceae
Semialata
Kusmi
Winter
15.
Desmodium
oojeinense
(Roxb.) H.
Ohashi
Fabaceae
Sandan or
pandan
Kusmi
Winter
16.
Protium
serratum (Wall.
ex Colebr.)
Engl.
Burseraceae
Kandeur
Kusmi
Winter
17.
Ficus virens W.
T. Aiton
Moraceae
Pakur
Rangeeni Summer
18.
Ziziphus
caracutta
Buch.-Ham. ex
Roxb.
Rhamnaceae
Ghont
Rangeeni Premature
summer
Table 6 Top ten lac producing districts in the country during 2014–15
Sl. No
District
States
Quantity (in tons)
Rank
1.
Ranchi
Jharkhand
2530
1
2.
Simdega
Jharkhand
1910
2
3.
Khunti
Jharkhand
1380
3
4.
Gumla
Jharkhand
1330
4
5.
Seoni
Madhya Pradesh
1165
5
6.
Gondia
Maharashtra
1100
6
7.
Balaghat
Madhya Pradesh
882
7
8.
West Singhbhum
Jharkhand
860
8
9.
Korba
Chhattisgarh
750
9
10.
Kanker
Chhattisgarh
510
10
Source At a Glance, IINRS, Ranchi Jharkhand
The climate in Ranchi is warm and temperate. Adverse weather such as excess
heat, excess cold, and storm sometimes causes damage to lac cultivation. Insects and
animals other than insects are the major enemies cause damages of lac insects. Insect
opponents of lac may be predators and parasites. Predators damage lac crops with
greater intensity (35% of the total destruction) as they not only drop the population
of lac insects but also retard the quality of lac. The vital killers of lac insects are
Eublemma amabilis (the white moth) and Holococera pulverea (the blackish grey
moth). Squirrels, monkey, rat, bat, birds (woodpeckers), man etc., are the enemies
other than insects which destruct the lac in different ways. More than 20% of lac insect