There are three hundred types of plants in palm family found all over the world. There are sugar yielding palm, oil yielding palm etc. The book deals with eight types of palm trees commonly found giving details of their virtues like Medicined virtue, edible oil, craft, sugar and various value added products out of them. The book also deals with various taper communities, various organisations working in palm sector, their strength and weakness besides opportunities. Details of technology and market demand of palm products are also discussed. The book will be useful for researchers, social scientists and food technologists and plamvers
ABOUT THE AUTHOR G K Ghosh
He is graduated in Chemical Engineering from Regional Engineering College, Rourkella. After graduation served number of organizations like Hindustan Lever Ltd., I.B.P Co. Ltd., Konark Detergents and Soaps Ltd., and finally joined Khadi & Village Industries Commission as director in the year 1982 retiring as Joint Chief Executive Officer in the year 2008. after retirement he was made member and chairman respectively of two important committees of Ministry of Science & Technology. He is also working with two rural based groups to develop environment friendly rural industrialization. He has presented more than 40 papers in Anthropology in various sessions of Indian Science Congress. More than 80 articles in various subjects written in English, Hindi, Bengali and Oriya were published in various journals and news papers of repute. He had authored more than 50 books out of which 48 were published. The subjects ranged from disaster Management, Anthropology, Environmental Issues, Renewable Energy, Ayurveda etc. he is well traveled all Indian States and most of the European countries. He was trained in Industtrial Cluster from International labor Organisation Training center at Turin, Italy.
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