Production Systems: Henna farming in India involves a highly intensive process. The seeds are planted in rows at a distance of about 15 cm from each other. After some time the land becomes densely populated with plants that more or less look like hedges. The distance between the rows highly depends on the producing area where it may range from a singular grossly populated monoculture with about 200000 plants per hectare to a mixed systen with annual food crops.

Ideally two yields are produced in a single year, particularly in the pre-monsoon season when the months are the hottest. The levels of input, differs from one region to the other. This is because few regions witness considerable amount of rainfall whereas a few others recieve very less moisture content. Owning to this and other factors, application of fertilizers or farmyard manure in carried out to ensure that there is no depletion of soil nutrients which arises as a result of frequent leaf harvesting.

The commercial age of henna plants range from 4 to 6 years especially when it is subjected to intensive cultivation but in regions where farming is carried out on a regular scale, producers do not replace their crop for as long as 10 to 12 years as well. With the demand for henna scaling great heights, farmers have acclerated their productions upto 2 to 3 times a year.