Contents: Foreword. Preface. I. Common problems of fruits and their management: 1. Unfruitfulness in fruit plants: associated factors and measures of control. 2. Alternate bearing in fruit crops: causes and control. 3. Fruit drop: causes and control. 4. Fruit cracking: causes and control. 5. Pollination and pollinizers: problems and solutions. 6. Fruit setting, a common orchard problem. 7. Non-availability of genuine planting material. 8. Rootstocks problems and some solutions. 9. Problem of mismatching harvests and recommended maturity indices for different fruits. II. Fruit crop-specific chronic problems and their management: 10. Mango malformation: symptoms, causes and cure. 11. Citrus decline: symptoms, causes and cure. 12. Citrus granulation: causes and remedial measures. 13. Guava wilt: symptoms, causes and control. 14. Coconut wilt: symptoms, causal factors and management practices. 15. Apple scab: symptoms, cause and control. III. Physiological disorders of fruit crops and their management: 16. Physiological disorders of tropical and subtropical fruits: causes and control. 17. Physiological disorders of temperate and stone fruits: causes and control. 18. Physiological disorders of minor importance: causes and control. IV. Biotic stresses affecting fruit production and their management: 19. Insect-pests of temperate and stone fruits and their management. 20. Insect-pests of tropical fruits and their management. 21. Insect-pests of subtropical fruits and their management. 22. Nematode pests of fruit crops and their management. 23. Vertebrate pests of fruit crops and their management. 24. Weeds of fruit crops and their management. 25. Fungal diseases of fruits: causal agents, symptoms and their management. 26. Bacterial diseases of fruits: causal agents, symptoms and management. 27. Viral diseases of fruit crops and their management. V. Abiotic stresses affecting fruit production and their management: 28. Frost: prediction and protection methods. 29. Problems of moisture excess or deficit. 30. Problematic soils: characters and management practices for fruit production. 31. Adverse climatic triggers and their possible management. 32. Winter injury: types and management practices for the protection of fruit plants. VI. Miscellaneous problems of fruit production and their management: 33. Miscellaneous problems and their solutions. Glossary. Subject index.

"The book entitled "Fruit Production : Problems and Solutions" is a unique book of its own kind, which deals exclusively with the problems of fruit production and their possible remedial measures. It is a comprehensive book, written in a simple, understandable language and in a lucid manner. It has numerous photographs and figures to make it much more explanatory. It contains 33 chapters, spread over in six sections.

This book would be of practical use to the Under Graduate (UG) and Post-Graduate (PG) students, farmers, teachers, researchers, extension workers and fruit growers."