Special Artcle: Durum Wheat Breeding Tackling the Constraints of Cumin Cultivation and Management Practices Abstract Cumin (Cuminum cyminum L.) is an important seed spice crop, having good medicinal propertes and grown predominately in arid and semi-arid region of the world. India is the leading country with share of 70% in the world producton of cumin. Two states of India (Rajasthan and Gujarat) cover nearly 80% of the total area under cumin cultvaton. The current scenario and status of area, produc- ton and productvity in India has been reviewed to identfy the various factors afectng cumin producton and productvity. Apart from these major constraints related to climate, soil, agronomical, crop input, extension, marketng and farm mechanizaton in cumin producton and their management are discussed thoroughly. Due to low productvity of cumin there is need to focus on integrated ap- proaches such as utlizing modern technologies, advance agronomic practses, farm mechanizaton interventons and advanced breed- ing tools to enhance the cumin producton. The study reveals alter- natve solutons to overcome these problems and evidenced that there is huge scope of farm mechanizaton to improve the produc- ton of cumin crop and reduce drudgery of farmers. Keywords: Cumin cultvaton; Constraints; Farm mechanizaton; Scope; Integrated approaches Mohit Kumar 1,4 ; Pramod Kumar Sahoo 1 ; Dilip Kumar Kushwaha 1 ; Santosh Gudi 2* ; Gurjeet Singh 2,3* ; Aman Mahore 4 ; Rohit Nalawade 4 ; Abhishek Patel 4 ; Nrusingh Charan Pradhan 1 ; Mehdi Rahimi 5 1 Division of Agricultural Engineering, Indian Agricultural Research Insttute, India 2 Department of Plant Breeding and Genetcs, Punjab Agricultural University, India 3 Texas A&M University, AgriLife Research at Beaumont, USA 4 ICAR-CIAE, India 5 Department of Biotechnology, Insttute of Science and High Technology and Environmental Sciences, Graduate University of Advanced Technology, Iran *Corresponding author: Santosh Gudi Department of Plant Breeding and Genetcs, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab 141004, India. Gurjeet Singh, Texas A&M University, AgriLife Research at Beaumont, Texas-77713, USA. Email: santosh-pbg@pau.edu & gurjeet.singh@ag.tamu. edu Received: April 24, 2023 Accepted: May 17, 2023 Published: May 24, 2023 Annals of Agricultural & Crop Sciences Volume 8, Issue 3 (2023) www.austnpublishinggroup.com Santosh Gudi © All rights are reserved Citaton: Kumar M, Sahoo PK, Kushwaha DK, Gudi S, Singh G, et al. Tackling the Constraints of Cumin Cultvaton and Management Practces. Ann Agric Crop Sci. 2023; 8(3): 1134. Annals of Agricultural & Crop Sciences Open Access Introducton Seed spices, an important group of hortcultural crops, which are largely grown in diverse region of the world under semi-arid region. In India, seed spices are extensive set of cash crop to fulfl the domestc needs as well as earning substantal foreign exchange. The Internatonal Organizaton for Standardizaton (ISO) has listed almost 109 spices that are used throughout the world. Among these, about 63 spices are grown in India, out of which 20 are categorised as seed spices [125]. The most com- mon seed spices grown in India include fennel, cumin, coriander, anise, fenugreek, nigella, ajwain, caraway, celery and dill. Cumin crop has highest area among seed spices followed by fennel, coriander, fenugreek and other seed spices. India is the world's largest seed spice consumer, producer and exporter. It contrib- utes approximately 51.79 and 19.06% area and producton, re- spectvely of the total spice producton in the country [57]. The overall annual export of seed spice crops is Rs 19505.81 crore, out of which cumin alone accounts for Rs 2884.80 crore. India exports approximately 14% of its producton and meets about 50% of the global demand [117]. There is a constantly increas- ing demand of seed spices in global market each year and India is the largest trustworthy supply point of these spices to other countries. India is the leading country in cumin producton with a share of 70% total world producton. However, the productv- ity of cumin in India is less in comparison to other countries due to limited adopton of improved method and new technologies in cumin cultvaton. In India, Rajasthan and Gujarat are the two states that covers major area (more than 80%) of cumin produc- ton, besides these two states, it is also grown in some part of diferent states viz. Utar Pradesh, Delhi, Utarakhand, Madhya Pradesh, Chhatsgarh and West Bengal [85].