Lac is being cultivated on host plants. These plants must be quick growing, have low sap density, able to withstand heavy infestation of the lac insects. The Farmer ties to a 'stick lac' to the tree, which is a branch with grown lac cocoon full of crawlers that are ready to break out and colonise the next tree. 

The swarming of the insects depends on several climatic factors like rainfall, intensity of sunlight, direction of wind, humidity, etc. In the past years farmers experienced extremely difficulties due to the climate crisis. 

Many times lac cultivation is not the main practice of the farmer, since it is not a very time consuming process, many farmers will cultivate few trees at their field next to growing different plants.