Vegetables Production Technology

Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Nutritional Importance of Vegetables. 3. Classification of Vegetables. 4. Types of Vegetable Farming. 5. Weed Management in Vegetable Crops. 6. Raising of Vegetable Seedlings in Nursery. 7. Solanaceous Fruit Vegetables. 8. Cole Crops. 9. Root Crops. 10. Pea and Beans. 11. Leafy Vegetables. 12. Other Salad Vegetables. 13. Other Under-Exploited Vegetables. 14. Bulb Crops. 15. Tuber Crops. 16. Perennial Vegetable Crops. 17. Physiological Disorders in Vegetable Crops. 18. Postharvest Management of Vegetable Crops. 19. Integrated Pest and Disease Management in Vegetable Crops. 20. Recommendations on Production Technologies in Vegetable Crops. 21. Export of Vegetable Crops. 22. Marketing of Vegetables. Appendices. References. Index.

This book entitled 'Vegetables - Production Technology' includes update general information on area, production, export, improved varieties as well as production technologies of more than 71 vegetables. The book includes various chapters as introduction, vegetable classification, types of vegetable farming, cultivation of Solanaceous vegetables, cucurbits, okra, legume vegetables, Cole crops, bulb crops, root crops, potato, tuber crops, leaf vegetable production including under exploited vegetables in order to provide all information at one place. Unique feature of this book lay on more than 140 coloured photographs related to different vegetable crops, physiological disorders, pests and diseases of different vegetable crops. We believe that the information compiled and presented in this book would be of immense interest and useful to various stakeholders like undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in Agriculture and Horticulture, nutritionists and dieticians, planners, extension and development officers in Agriculture. (jacket)