TY  - BOOK
AU  - George,Raymond A.T.
ED  - C.A.B. International,
TI  - Tropical vegetable production
AV  - SB324.56 .G46 2011eb
U1  - 635.0913 23
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK
PB  - CABI
KW  - Tropical vegetables
KW  - Developing countries
KW  - Marketing and Distribution
KW  - Horticultural Crops, (New March 2000)
KW  - Plant Breeding and Genetics
KW  - Plant Production
KW  - Soil Water Management (Irrigation and Drainage), (Revised June 2002)
KW  - Soil Management
KW  - Crop Produce
KW  - Food Storage and Preservation
KW  - Storage Problems and Pests of Food
KW  - Alliaceae
KW  - cabt
KW  - Apiaceae
KW  - Araceae
KW  - Brassicaceae
KW  - Convolvulaceae
KW  - Cucurbitaceae
KW  - Cyperaceae
KW  - Dioscoreaceae
KW  - Euphorbiaceae
KW  - Fabaceae
KW  - Lamiaceae
KW  - Poaceae
KW  - Solanaceae
KW  - Crop management
KW  - Crop production
KW  - Cultivars
KW  - Leafy vegetables
KW  - Marketing
KW  - Postharvest losses
KW  - Seeds
KW  - Soil management
KW  - Sustainability
KW  - Topography
KW  - Tropics
KW  - Vegetables
KW  - Water management
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Introduction -- Site, topography, soils and water -- Site management, seeds and types of cultivars -- Support for farmers -- Crop preparation and management -- Reducing pre- and postharvest losses and marketing surpluses -- Alliaceae : onions and related crops -- Cruciferae : crucifers -- Cucurbitaceae : cucurbits, the vine crops -- Solanaceae : tomatoes and related crops -- Leguminosae : beans and related crops -- Leafy vegetables -- Araceae, Convolvulaceae, Dioscoreaceae, Euphorbiaceae : tropical tubers -- Andean tubers and roots and crops of the Lamiaceae and Apiaceae -- Gramineae and Cyperaceae; Access limited to subscribing institution; Also available in print format
N2  - This volume consists of two parts. Part 1 comprises 6 chapters concerning the principles and practice of tropical vegetable production (including site, topography, soils and water; site management, seeds and types of cultivars; support for farmers; crop preparation and management; reducing pre- and postharvest losses and marketing surpluses). In Part 2, the crops have been mainly dealt with according to their taxonomy as botanical families, either as single or groups of families per chapter. These include: Alliaceae; Cruciferae [Brassicaceae]; Cucurbitaceae; Solanaceae; Leguminosae; leafy vegetables; Araceae, Convolvulaceae, Dioscoreaceae, Euphorbiaceae; Andean tubers and roots and crops of the Lamiaceae and Apiaceae; and Gramineae [Poaceae] and Cyperaceae. Examples of the indigenous species which can be regarded as important sources of edible vegetative materials which are not dealt with in the main text have been listed in Appendix 1. Contact details of the main international research stations are provided in Appendix 2. This book has been written with the hope and purpose that it will be used by technical, college and university students during their studies of horticulture, crop production and agriculture; it is also for students on other allied courses and agriculturists who find themselves needing more vegetable-orientated information in the course of their professional activities. It is aimed to assist in the production of extension, advisory and research staff and officers who will be the core of trainers, advisors, researchers and extension workers in tropical and subtropical countries
UR  - https://dx.doi.org/10.1079/9781845937539.0000
ER  -