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India in one of the major producer of plantation crops with an annual export earning of over Rs 3700 million. This constitute ? of earnings from exports of agricultural commodities and ? of earning from all export. Although these crops occupy less than 2% of the total cultivated area, we are among the leading producer of tea, cashewnut, arecanut, cardamom, coconut and pepper. Disease play a very crucial role in the production of plantation crops. History reveals ...
This book gives a comprehensive account of major economically important diseases of fruits and plantation crops of tropical and subtropical regions. The each chapter includes distribution, symptomatology with colour photographs, casual agent, epidemiolog, disease cycle, various management strategies includes cultural, host plant resistance, chemical and biological and biotech approaches. The book also gives a detailed calendar of operations in for disease ...