Nursery Production and Orchard Management: Vol 3: Arid and Tropical Fruits

Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Basics and applied aspects of propagation of fruit crops. 2. Propagation techniques in arid fruits. 3. Orchard establishment and canopy management in arid fruits. 4. Nursery production, canopy and orchard management in arid unexploited minor fruit crops. 5. Propagation of major tropical fruit crops. 6. Orchard and canopy management in tropical fruit crops. 7. Production of planting material and orchard management of tropical minor fruits. 8. Production technology of acid lime, sweet orange, tamarind in dry tropical India. 9. Propagation techniques for humid tropical fruits. 10. Orchard and canopy management in humid zone fruit crops. 11. Epicotyl and stone grafting in mango. 12. Nursery production, orchard and canopy management in grapevine in tropical climate. 13. Nursery techniques, canopy and orchard management in Banana. 14. Orchard and canopy management in pomegranate. 15. Propagation techniques for edible palms. 16. Orchard management in edible palms. 17. Nursery and plantation management in oil palm. 18. Nursery production and canopy management in cashew. 19. Multiple cropping system in plantation crops. 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 third volume of this book exclusively deals with Arid and Tropical Fruits.