Nursery Production and Orchard Management: Vol. 2: Temperate and Sub-tropical Fruits Crops

Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Orchard planning and layout. 2. Propagation techniques in temperate fruits. 3. Orchard and canopy management in temperate fruit crops. 4. Nursery production of unexploited minor temperate fruit crops. 5. Orchard and canopy management in unexploited minor temperate fruits. 6. Propagation, orchard and canopy management in high altitude/cold desert fruit crops. 7. Propagation of sub-tropical fruit crops. 8. Canopy management in sub-tropical fruits. 9. Nursery production, orchard and canopy management in unexploited minor sub-tropical fruits. 10. A paradigm shift in citrus clean stock production in central India through innovative propagation techniques. 11. Orchard and canopy management in citrus. 12. Advanced techniques for propagation of citrus plants. 13. Nursery production, orchard and canopy management in sub-temperate fruits. 14. Protected nursery production of citrus plants. 15. Orchard and canopy management in hill horticulture. 16. Nursery production, orchard and canopy management in grapevines in temperate and sub-tropics. 17. Nursery production, orchard and canopy management in dragon fruit, raspberry and fig. 18. Orchard and canopy management in fruit crops of north-east India. 19. Nursery production, orchard and canopy management in litchi. 20. Citrus-based cropping systems in North-east India. Index.

Nursery production practices and orchard management including canopy manipulation is essential to achieve optimum productivity with production of high quality fruits. The Government of India has started a national programme to supply clean planting material to the fruit growers and provided sufficient logistic support and financial assistance with the aim to provide disease free true-to-type high quality planting material. On the other hand, the orchard management is interdependent subject where associated architectural advances play an important role to produce competitive products with desired quality traits. The second volume of this book exclusively deals with Temperate and Sub-tropical Fruits.