Contents: I. Coconut Production: 1. Origin, distribution, characters. 2. Area, production and productivity. 3. Varieties: variability, plant type, description breeding, self-pollination, hybridization tissue culture. 4. Climatic requirement and socil characteristics. 5. Production of planting material: seednuts, mother palm selection, nursery techniques. 6. Field planting and care of young plantations. 7. Nutrients and their requirements: essential elements and their interaction organic manures, green manure and cover-cropping. 8. Cropping systems: inter-cropping, multi-storeyed cropping, mixed-cropping mixed farming. 9. Water requirements and irrigation management. 10. Physiology of coconut: Carbohydrate reserve, button shedding, drought tolerance. 11. Microbial system: beneficial microbes, mycorrhiza microbial activity in processing, microbial spoilage. 12. Harvesting, yield and post-harvest technology. 13. Use of coconut. 14. Economic analysis. II. Coconut Protection: 15. 1. Diseases: Pathogenic: But rot, Ganoderma, Stembleeding, leat rot, fruit rot, leaf blight, red ring, crown choking root (wilt). 2. Insect pests: Rhinoceros buttle, leaf eating caterpillar, red palm weevil etc. 3. Vertibal pests: Rodents and their management. 16. References. 17. Author Index.

From the preface: "This book "Coconut Production and Protection Technology" presents a comprehensive information on the coconut palm and its products will be useful to planters, research and extension workers and also general readers. It covers all aspects of coconut cultivation including origin, botany, area and production climatic requirements, production of planting materials, variety and breeding, its physiology and micro-biology, its cultural, manurial and irrigational requirements etc. This manual has practical approach and economic understanding for increasing production and to realise crop protection." 

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