Fruits for Livelihood: Production Technology and Management Practices

Contents: Part A: Scenario, Importance and Production Technologies: 1. Important Fruits of India: Scenario, Export Potentiality and Production Technologies/Avijit Kr. Dutta. 2. Status of Underutilized Fruits in India: A Brief Overview/R. K. Singh, R. Kumar and M. Prasad. 3. Annona: A Lesser Known Fruit of India/Animesh Sarkar. 4. Aonla: A Fruit for Marginal Lands/Brijesh Pandey and Ashok Kumar. 5. Bael: A Fruit of Immense Medicinal Properties/Brijesh Pandey and Neha Rajan. 6. Ber: A Minor Fruit for Dry Land Farming/Avijit Kr. Dutta and R. N. Ray. 7. Carambola: An Underexploited Miracle Fruit/Avijit Kr. Dutta. 8. Jackfruit: A Minor Fruit of the Tropics/C S Maiti. 9. Jamun: An Indigenous Underutilized Fruit of India/Sutanu Maji and Shubhranshu Sengupta. 10. Karonda: A Potential Minor Fruit for Jharkhand/Avijit Kr. Dutta and Shubhranshu Sengupta. 11. Kendu: A Fruit of the Forest for Tribal Livelihood/Avijit Kr. Dutta. 12. Monkey Jack (Artocarpus lakoocha Roxb.): Hope for Sustaining Livelihood/S. K. Bishnoi, R. Shinde and P. K. Sarkar. 13. Pear (Pyrus pyrifolia L.): A Potential Source of Livelihood for Primitive Tribes of Jharkhand/M. K. Dhakar, B. Das, S. Kumar and M. Kundu. 14. Pepino: A Lesser Known Underutilized Fruit of the North East/Animesh Sarkar. 15. Tamarind (Tamarindus indica L.): A Potential Source of Hope for the Poor Farm Families/M. Prasad, K. Barman and R. K. Singh. 16. Wood Apple: A Semi-wild Popular Minor Fruit of India/K. Dey, A. Ghosh, F. K. Bauri, D. K. Mishra and P. Choudhuri. 17. Under-Exploited Fruits of the Forests: Eastern Indian Plateau is a Potential Hub/P. K. Sarkar, S. K. Bishnoi and R. Shinde. Part B: Post-Harvest Management, Processing and Value Addition: 18. Post-Harvest Treatments used in Delaying the Ripening and Senescence of Fruits/Payel Panja, Pran Krishna Thakur and Uddipta Ghosh. 19. Reduction of Post-Harvest Losses of Horticultural Produces/Goutam Mandal. 20. Emerging Methods of Processing and Preservation of Fruits/P. Kandasamy. 21. Minimal Processing of Fruits/Payel Panja and Uddipta Ghosh. 22. Processing and Value Addition of Some Arid Fruit Crops/Ghosh, K. Dey, P. Dutta, S. Das and B. C. Das. 23. Post-Harvest Management and Value Addition of Some Minor Fruits of Jharkhand/Anjali Chandra and Ajeet Kr. Singh. 24. Value Addition of Ber and Jamun: An Option to Boost Rural Economy/Karuna Kumari, Gopal Krishna and Anil Kumar. 25. Value Addition in Minor Fruits of Eastern India: An Opportunity to Generate Rural Employment/Anuradha Srivastava, Santosh Kumar Bishnoi and Pradip Kumar Sarkar. Part C: Fruit Farming and Livelihood Opportunities. 26. Livelihood Security through Fruit Farming/Arunava Sengupta. 27. Edible Wild Fruits in Rural Livelihood with Reference to Medicinal, Nutritional and Economic Aspects/Dipankar Chatterjee. 28. Fruit Farming, Sustainable Agriculture and Livelihood Security in India/Samik Sengupta, S. M. Rahaman and Basabdatta Das. 29. Commercial Utility of Ber (Ziziphus mauritiana): A Mean for Livelihood Security/R. K. Yogi, A. K. Jaiswal and K. K. Sharma. 30. Economic Approach of Fruit Farming: An Example of Banana Cultivation/Punit Kr. Agarwal and Pushpa Yadav. 31. Growing Sapota in Low-Lying Areas of Sundarbans: A Successful Alternative to Revive Rural Economy in Coastal India/Chandan Kumar Mondal and Nilendu Jyoti Maitra. 32. Mahua: A Prospective Source of Tribal Livelihood/Debjit Roy and Kaushik Das. 33. Growth and Development of Horticulture and its Impact on Livelihood: A Case Study of Sikkim/D. Sarkar, D. Majumder and R. K. Biswas. 34. Apiculture and Fruit Farming: An Option to Promote Livelihood/M. K. Chakravarty, S. J. Prasanthi and R. Kumar. 35. Fruit Farming and Sustainable Livelihood Security: e-Resources/Kumar, R. Kumar, R. K. Yogi and Ranvir Kumar. Part D: Complementary Studies and Miscellaneous Aspects: 36. Strategies for Organic Fruit Production/Piyali Dutta, Koyel Dey and Arkendu Ghosh. 37. Propagation of Different Tropical and Sub-Tropical Fruits/Sanjoy Kumar Bordolui. 38. Impacts of Exogenous and Endogenous Hormones on Maturity and Ripening of Fruit Crops/K. Dey, A. Ghosh, P. Dutta, S. Das and F. K. Bauri. 39. Application of Nano Materials in Food Processing: A Review/Kishore Chandra Swain. Annexure.

Adequate numbers of books on fruits are available throughout the world book markets but this book has unique feature in the sense that the fruits (especially under-exploited fruits of the forests) and their role in livelihood promotion are greatly apprehended here during compilation of the manuscript. The book on ‘Fruits for Livelihood: Production Technology and Management Practices’ mainly highlights over the aspects those are merely concerned in earlier books of the same in kind. In this context, it is a unique book in the field of Horticulture in general and Fruit Science in particular. The current scenario, production technologies and related problems of different important fruits of our country including minor fruits of the forests have been considered carefully during framing this text. This manuscript also emphasizes on the under-exploited fruits related livelihood pattern of the rural and tribal poor of different states of India. The value addition and post-harvest management of different minor fruits are also taken into account during compilation of the chapters on these particular areas. This compendium has developed based on the dedicated and relentless contributions of 62 contributors notably from the categories of Professors, Associate Professors, Assistant Professors, Principal Scientists, Senior Scientists, Scientists, Research Associates, Research Fellows and Research Scholars those are actively engaged in Teaching, Research and Extension related activities in these particular arenas in different reputed universities and institutes across the country. It may serve both as textbook and reference book especially for the students of Horticulture, Agriculture, Rural and Tribal Development and Management or related fields as well for their graduation, post-graduation or even higher studies. This book may also serve the purpose of the research scholars, academicians and scientists especially those are working in this particular field for pursuing their higher studies and research works.