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India is a fascinating country in its fruit wealth where almost all fruits that are consumable to human beings are grown. Quite a considerable number of fruit crops have now been existent in this country as inmates of the man-made plantations but these apart, a large number are still there which are not cropped in organized plantations. These fruit crops which grow here and there as wild and are referred to as under-exploited, less-exploited or minor fruit crops ...
Analysis of human consumable fruits become necessary to the students and researchers of fruit science, horticulture, food technology, plant biochemistry, botany, applied botany, forestry, ayurved, pharmaceutics and some other disciplines. Necessity of such analysis is also felt in fruit preservation factories or training centres and to the agricultural marketing personnels in making grading of fruits. It needs pointing out in this context that to assess the ...
India is a fascinating country in its fruit wealth where almost all fruits that are consumable to human beings are grown. Quite a considerable number of fruit crops have now been existent in this country as inmates of the man-made plantations but these apart, a large number are still there which are not cropped in organized plantations. These fruit crops which grow here and there as wild and are referred to as under-exploited, less-exploited or minor fruit crops ...
To acquire skill on the husbandry of fruit crops, a clear understanding of the principles underlying scientific production of them is the pre-requisite. Although there have been a number of dependable books which devoted much attention on the cropping procedure of the varied fruit crops, separate titles dealing with the principles of cropping are not adequate under Indian conditions. The present title has therefore, been shaped which has confined to the ...
Although there exists a number of books providing procedural details on scientific husbandry of the various fruit crops grown in Indian, separate titles covering elaborate discussions on the principles of fruit culture befitting to this country are inadequate. While considering this gap, the present text has been brought in, incorporating two fundamental aspects on the principles of fruit culture, which are orchard irrigation and soil management practices, the ...
Photoperiodism and Vernalization are fascinating areas in plant physiology. The phenomena were conceived as the expedients to switch on flowering in plants but with passage of time, divulged intricacies establishing as exponents to a wider range of functional processes in them. Despite much o the complexities on the living processes in plants have been discovered by delving into these areas, much remains to be unraveled. The present title has brought forward the ...
Although medicinal plants attach a great importance in India where people belonged to different sections regard them as efficacious agents to combat many aliments, well-timed procurement of these materials faces difficulty in many parts of the country as regular cultivation of them is not widely practiced. Relatively small sized plantations may however, be set up by individuals or organizations for the purpose of meetings their own requirements as well as to ...