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 horticultural products from many countries are enormously high. Since the cost of production of raw materials in tropical countries is comparatively low, the scope for establishing farms and plantations for production and industries for utilization of these produces are increasing steadily. In view of the importance of tropical horticultural crops, it was considered relevant to provide updated information on different aspects of various groups of plants with emphasis on production technology in two volumes, of this publication. The publication will be useful to the students, researchers, horticulturists, planters, farmers and entrepreneurs alike.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR A.A. Farooqi
Azhar Ali Farooqi, Professor of Horticulture (Medicinal and Aromatic Plants), has 33 years of experience in teaching, research and extension in fruit, plantation, medicinal and aromatic crops. He has worked on three GOI sponsored research projects on the development of medicinal and aromatic plants and spice crops. He has established an amazing herbal garden comprising of 175 species of medicinal plants of commercial importance, including some endangered species and a crop museum of 35 species. He has published 75 scientific papers, and has written 30 popular articles in international and national journals and is the author of 3 books in the field of medicinal and aromatic plants.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR T.K. Bose
T.K. Bose, Ph.D. from Calcutta University, trained at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, U.K.; 1960-1972 Horticulturist and Secretary, the Agri-Horticultural Society of India; 1972-76, Reader, Calcutta University; Project Coordinator, Floriculture, Indian Council of Agricultural Research; 1976-1996 Professor and Head Department of Horticulture, Dean Faculty of Agriculture; Director of Research – Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya (State Agricultural University) West Bengal, supervised research work of 35 Ph.D. students, published more than 250 scientific and 400 popular articles; author and editor of books – Fruits: Tropical and Subtropical (2 Vols.) Vegetables Crops; Commercial Flowers; Temperate Fruits; Floriculture and Landscaping; Tropical Horticulture (2 Vols.); Biotechnology and Horticultural Crops (3 Vols.); Trees of the World (Vol. 1); Orchids of India; Garden Plants; Gardening in India; Mineral Nutrition of Fruit crops; Nutrition of Vegetable Crops; Propagation of Tropical and Subtropical Horticultural Crops.
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