Editing Guar (section)

===Cultivation areas===
Guar is grown principally in north-western India with smaller crops grown in the semiarid areas of the high plains of Texas in the [[United States|US]],<ref>[http://juniper.tamu.edu/Agronomy/guar_production.htm "Guar Production"] Vernon Agricultural Research & Extension Center, Texas A&M Univ. 2006.</ref> Australia and Africa. The most important growing area centres on Jodhpur in Rajasthan, India, where demand for guar for fractionation produced an agricultural boom as in 2012.<ref name=NYT71612>{{cite news|title=In Tiny Bean, India's Dirt-Poor Farmers Strike Gas-Drilling Gold|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/17/world/asia/fracking-in-us-lifts-guar-farmers-in-india.html|access-date=July 17, 2012|newspaper=The New York Times|date=July 16, 2012|author=Gardiner Harris}}</ref> Currently [When? As of 2023?], India is the main producer of cluster bean, accounting for 80% production of the world's total, while the [[Rajasthan]], [[Gujarat]] and [[Kutch district|Kutch]] regions occupy the largest areas (82.1% of total) dedicated to guar cultivation. In addition to its cultivation in India, the crop is also grown as a cash crop in other parts of the world.<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Pathak | first1 = R. | last2 = Singh | first2 = S. K. | last3 = Singh | first3 = M. | last4 = Henry | first4 = A. | title = Molecular assessment of genetic diversity in cluster bean (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba) genotypes | doi = 10.1007/s12041-010-0033-y | journal = Journal of Genetics | volume = 89 | issue = 2 | pages = 243–246 | year = 2010 | pmid =  20861578| s2cid = 7056607 }}</ref> Several commercial growers<ref>[http://westtexasguar.com "large scale guar growers"]</ref> have converted their crops to guar production to support the increasing demand for guar and other organic crops<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://guar-tex.com/ |title="organic fertilizer crops" |access-date=2022-03-20 |archive-date=2013-06-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130605060808/http://guar-tex.com/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> in the United States.