In order to cultivate the plant properly, moisture is required during the growing period, so rainfall should be at least 100 mm or more per month during the crop cycle, with a fairly uniform temperature.
These flowers are short-lived, opening in the early hours of morning before sunrise and closing by noon of the same day.
In India the plant is cultivated in the states of Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Bihar, Maharashtra, Karnataka, and Orissa.
They have good storage stability, and their strongly adherent seed coat makes separation from the kernel difficult.
In addition, eight unidentified phospholipids were also found, β-sitosterol (72.3% of the total sterols), campesterol (9.9%), and stigmasterol (6.07%) being prevalent among the kenaf genotypes.