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 pertinence of which to gain expertise on fruit crop husbandry needs no emphasis. The title has aimed at presenting the subject in a clearly understandable form to meet the requirements of the post-graduate and the advanced level of under-graduate students of horticulture in India for preparing them to take up studies on the husbandry of fruit crops in a critical manner, besides providing practical informations to the fruit growing personnels in this country.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR B.C. Mazumdar
Prof. Bibhas Chandra Mazumdar has been in the profession of teaching and supervising researches on fruit culture, growth and developmental physiology of crop plants and biochemistry of fruit crops in some Indian Universities since the year 1971 after his doctoral degree on biochemistry of growth, flowering and fruiting of mango cultivars. Major areas of his researches in teaching career include growth and developmental aspects of fruit crops, pectic metabolism, plant physiology, papaya latex and on less-exploited minor fruit crops grown in India. In the area on physiology and biochemistry of fruit growth, a number of his research contributions are considered to be of fundamental importance. He has so far to his credit 5 text books on fruit crops and horticulture and 129 research papers published in the journals of India, U.S.A. and U.K. as well as 17 scientific articles brought out in the magazines of India and the U.K. in the same areas.
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