About the book

The importance of tropical horticultural crops, it was considered relevant to provide updated information on different aspects of various groups of plants with emphasis on production technology. Tropical horticulture includes plants such as perennial woody plants (arboriculture), ornamentals (floriculture), vegetables (olericulture), and fruits (pomology) including grapes (viticulture). The origin of many of these crops is not in the tropics but in temperate zones. Their adoption to tropical climatic conditions is an objective of breeding. Many important crops, however, are indigenous to the tropics. The latter embrace perennial crops such as oil palm, vegetables including okra, field crops such as rice and sugarcane, and particularly fruits including pineapple, banana, papaya, and mango. Most of the horticultural plants, particularly the fruit trees, are perennial in nature. Some of the fruit trees survive and produce fruits for about 100 years. Horticulture has a significant role in human nutrition. It plays a prime role in wealth generation and socio-economic status of the farmers. Most of the horticultural crops are propagated vegetatively for which nursery units are necessary. There are plentiful programmers being implemented to develop the nurseries and there by bringing about horticultural development. The publication will be useful to the students, researchers, horticulturists, planters, farmers and entrepreneurs alike."

Contents

Introduction,

Tropical Vegetation on Seeds,

Tropical and Sub-tropical Fruits,

Post-Harvest Cultivation and Technology in Horticulture,

Vegetable Crops,

Flowering Plants,

Horticultural Plants and Crops,

Organic Horticulture