The main components of fennel are protein, fat, dietary fiber, fennel brain, cumin ketone, anisaldehyde and so on. Its aroma mainly comes from fennel brain, anisaldehyde and other flavor substances. It is a multi-purpose plant that combines medicine, flavor, food and make-up.

The young stems and leaves are used as vegetables and stuffing food, and the fennel fruit contains 2.8% fennel oil, 50-60% fennel brain, 18-20% a-anethole, 10% methyl pepper and a-pinene dipentene, anisaldehyde, camphene and so on. The endosperm contains about 15% fat oil, protein, starch, sugar and mucus about 85%. It can be used as a spice and is often used in the cooking of meat, seafood and pasta such as baklava.

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Growing fennel in soil that is loose and fertile, and preferably sandy, will make it more productive, especially if the soil in which it is planted is kept in the Between acidic six is best. The soil should be tilled and can be tilled to a depth of 20 centimeters.

And in the soil mixed with compound fertilizer or farmyard manure and to add 40 kg of phosphate fertilizer, potash 15 kg, which will make the soil more fertile. Especially farmyard manure can be used to farm their own breeding of pig manure, sheep manure, cow manure, chicken manure, these manure after processing, can be sterilized in the summer of each year after exposure to sunlight, so that the manure and the soil for mixing, it will become a very nutritious fertilizer.

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