Guar Gum History

The Guar plant 'Cyamopis Tetragonalobus' or ‘Cluster Bean’ is a drought hardy leguminous crop. The legume is an important source of nutrition to humans and animals, it regenerates soil nitrogen and the endosperm of guar seed is an important hydrocolloid widely used across a broad spectrum of industries.

The 'Guar' legume plant is extremely drought resistant and thrives in semiarid regions where most plants perish. It grows best in sandy soils and areas of West, North-West India and some parts of Pakistan are the ideal places for its farming. Jodhpur city in the North-Western state of Rajasthan in India is the most important and ideal processing centre for Guar Gum and contributes about 40% of the world's Guar Gum supply.

Seasons

Guar requires reasonably warm weather and a growing season of 14 to 16 weeks. It needs moderate intermittent rainfall with lot of sunshine. Too much precipitation can cause the plant to become more' leafy' thereby reducing the number of pods and / or the number of seeds per pod which affects the size and yield of seeds. The crop is generally sown after the monsoon rainfall in second half of July / early August and is harvested in late October / early November. The Guar is a natural rain fed crop and the total size of Guar crop varies from year to year depending upon monsoon rainfall.

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Basic Chemical Structure of Guar Gum: