Recent Advances in Pomegranate serves as a valuable resource material for the students, researchers and scholars in their respective fields. This book covers various latest topics on growing Pomegranate.
It elucidates the new storage and processing technology and innovative packing techniques which have made the Pomegranate to reach the distant markets. The value added products like Pomegranate juice, processed products like wine, squash, syrups, jam, jelly, candy and anardana are gaining momentum in world trade.
Recently the bacterial blight has become a threat for pomegranate cultivation, since no Indian varieties are resistant to this bacterial blight. The book throws light on this in detail.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR M.K. Sheikh
Dr. M.K. Sheikh completed his B.sc. (Agri) from UAS, Banglore, M.Sc. (Agri) Horticulture and again Ph.D. in Horticulture from UAS, Dharwad. He has worked as a team Leader in Oil Seeds research, farm Section and demonstrated a number of research results. Besides he has developed export production technology in pomegranate. He has made a significant contribution preparing five laboratory manuals an also writing Kannada books on Grape, Pomegranate and Payaya. His distinguished twenty-five year tenture has seen him serve as research Assistant/ Assistant professor/Associate professor and, currently he is assuming the duties of Professor and head, Department of Horticulture, College of Agriculture, Bijapur (Karnataka). Dr. M.K. Sheikh has also the honour of serving the Ministry of Commerce, Saudi Arabia for two years.
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