Chia Plant Seeds (500+ Seed)

🔹 Common name ➜ Chia seeds, Tukmaria family seed
🔹 Scientific name ➜ Salvia hispanica
🔹 Type ➜ Superfood & Oilseed crop 🌿
🔹 Use ➜ Raw consumption, drinks, herbal medicine, healthy oil
✔️ Suitable for:
➜ Organic farming
➜ Natural farming
➜ Desi beej cultivation
➜ Chemical-free spice & seed farming

🌟 Why Chia Plant?
✔️ Extremely high nutrition & Omega-3 value 💊
✔️ Rapidly growing demand in health markets 📈
✔️ Low water requirement & low input cost 💰
✔️ Naturally pest-resistant crop
✔️ Ideal for: ➜ Natural farming
➜ Herbal & superfood business
➜ Small farmers & organic growers

🌤️ Climate & Sowing Time 🇮🇳
India:
➜ Rabi crop ➜ October – November ❄️
📍 Punjab / North India:
➜ Best sowing: • October – November
✔️ Best temperature: ➜ 15–25°C
❌ Avoid heavy frost & waterlogging

🌾 Soil Requirement
➜ Best ➜ Well-drained sandy loam to light soils
➜ pH ➜ 6.0–7.5
✔️ Suitable for: ➜ Natural farming
➜ Light and dry soils

🌰 Seed Selection
➜ Recommended: • Desi open-pollinated seeds 🌱
• Native organic chia seeds
• Non-GMO traditional seeds
✔️ Benefits: ➜ Pure seed retention for next season
➜ Better drought tolerance
➜ Strong native immunity

🌱 Sowing Method
➜ Direct sowing or broadcast method
Seed rate: ➜ 1.5–2 kg per acre
Seed depth: ➜ 0.5–1 cm (very light soil cover)
Spacing:
➜ Row ➜ 30–45 cm
➜ Plant ➜ 15–20 cm
✔️ Helps: ➜ Adequate branching
➜ Maximum flower spikes

🌿 Organic Fertilizer Plan
Before sowing:
➜ Desi cow dung manure (FYM) ➜ 4–5 ton/acre
➜ Vermicompost
During growth:
➜ Jeevamrit spray (every 15 days)
➜ Panchgavya spray
✔️ Improves: ➜ Seed quality ⚫
➜ Natural oil content

💧 Irrigation
➜ Very light irrigation required
Schedule: ➜ Every 12–15 days
Critical stages: ➜ Flowering stage 🌼
➜ Seed setting stage
❌ Avoid excess watering
🐛 Organic Pest Control
➜ Naturally resistant due to essential oils 🌿
If needed: ➜ Neem Astra or Neem oil spray 🌿
➜ Sour buttermilk (Lassi) spray
✔️ Suitable for: ➜ 100% natural production

🌼 Flowering & Seed Formation
➜ Starts ➜ 50–60 days
➜ Produces attractive purple/white flower spikes

🧺 Harvesting
➜ Ready in ➜ 100–120 days
Harvest when: ➜ Flower spikes dry and turn brown
➜ Seeds turn hard & glossy
✔️ Cut plant spikes, dry in shade, and thresh manually

⏳ Crop Duration
➜ Total life ➜ 3.5–4 months
📦 Yield
➜ Average ➜ 4–6 quintal/acre
✔️ High market value superfood 💰
🌱 Special Benefits
✔️ Rich in fiber, protein & antioxidants
✔️ Low maintenance, drought-hardy crop
✔️ Excellent potential for direct-to-consumer organic sales 🌍
✔️ Best for: ➜ Desi seed saving
➜ Superfood organic farming

🪴 Growing Chia on Roof
✔️ Possible
Container:
➜ Grow bag / Pot ➜ 10–12 inch
Notes:
➜ Needs full sunlight; easy to grow in home herbal gardens