S.K. Mitra
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This book has its beginning in 1985 and later on revised in 1990. Since then a wealth of literature has been accumulated on various aspects of tropical and subtropical fruit crops. The present day fruit cultivation has become a highly sophisticated enterprise. In the process of a comprehensive literature survey it was felt impossible to compile the research results on tropical and subtropical fruits in one volume. The third revised edition of this book is, ...
Major scientific informations related to factors affecting nutrition, interaction between macro- and micro-nutrients, role of nutrients in resistance to diseases and pests, fertilizer recommendations for differnt regions and different crops have been presented in details. It is hoped that the book will serve as an important source of world literature on nutrition of vegetable crops.
Horticultural crops including fruits, vegetables, plantation crops, spices, medicinal and aromatic plants, flowers and ornamental plants apart from being a group of major food crops and economic crops throughout the world, constitute raw materials for value added products and industrial uses. A large number of horticultural crops grown in tropical countries are of major commercial importance and have global demand. Apart from domestic market, export trade of ...
This book has its beginning in 1985 and later on revised in 1990. Since then a wealth of literature has been accumulated on various aspects of tropical and subtropical fruit crops. The present day fruit cultivation has become a highly sophisticated enterprise. In the process of a comprehensive literature survey it was felt impossible to compile the research results on tropical and subtropical fruits in one volume. The third revised edition of this book is, ...
The third edition of this book has been the result of a thorough revision with updated information that was first published in 1986, reprinted in 1991 and further revised and published in 1997. Meanwhile, lot of information has been generated in the field of propagation of horticultural crops in general and micropropagation, in particular. The existing conventional propagation practices have been neither improved or new methods have been evolved and a revolution ...