Hort-Agro Project Reports

Contents: Preface. 1. What is business. 2. Project financing agencies and finance schemes. 3. Plant and machinery sourcing. 4. Village projects. 5. Crop culture. 6. Aromatic and medicinal crops. 7. Nursery and plant propagation. 8. Processed foods. 9. Vinegar. 10. Biomanure and biopesticides. 11. Post harvest management. 12. Department of science and technology. 13. Pulse milling. 14. Cut Flower Green House Culture.

From the Preface: "India with its traditional strength and Government delicately involved in the upliftment of the villages and village economy through active participation of one and all have put in their energies for the manufacture and production of value added products and raising of new plantations and devising ways and means for the new generation in the involvement of business oriented plans. The manuscript presented, is a directed effort in the direction for guiding the youth, entrepreneurs, businessmen to know better through different Project reports brought in this on crop culture of fruit and vegetable, cut flowers, herbal/medicinal and aromatic crops, post harvest technology application for increased shelf life of the products, food processing, utilization of agro-wastes for raising soil fertility. The manuscript covers herbal, medicinal, aromatic, culinary plant values of crops, place of processed foods in Indian economy, raising of commercial nurseries for mother, fruit, forest and ornamental plants, high value vegetable crop culture, production of bio-manures, what post harvest technology is and how to start, cut flower/floriculture are the basic needs of the farmer, entrepreneur of today. Production of essential oils from the aromatic herbs is a field worth deploying towards product development and its demand in the pharmaceutical, cosmetic industry for herbal shampoos, mosquito repellents, solid fragrances, herbal waters of rose, mint and herbal cosmetics."