Vegetable and crop production

]]> By Shagufta.
New Delhi : A.P.H. Publishing Corporation 2017 .
xiv, 353 pages. , 1. Vegetable typology: an introductory overview – 1.1 Defining vegetable – 1.1.i. Vegetables – 1.1.ii. Different parts of plants used as vegetables – 1.1.iii. Nutrition – 1.1.iv. Color pigments – 1.1.v. Safety – 1.1.vi. Storage – 1.2 Perennial vegetable – 1.3 Cruciferous vegetable – 1.3.i. List of cruciferous vegetables – 1.4 Frozen vegetables – 1.4.i. Health benefits and risks – 1.5 Fruit& vegetable – 1.6. Vegetable and tuber crops – 1.6.i. Assessing and exploiting market opportunities – 1.6.ii. Marketing strategy – 1.6.iii. Olericulture – 1.6.iv. Uses – 1.7 Unusually shaped vegetable – 1.7.i. Causes – 1.7.ii. Legislation – 1.7.iii. Competitions – 1.7.iv. Popular culture – 1.8 References – 2. Select important vegetable crops and their utilities – 2.1 Important vegetable crops – 2.1.i. Sweet potato – 2.1.ii. Uses – 2.1.iii. Characteristics – 2.1.iv. Tomato – 2.1.v. Cucumber – 2.2 Boiled greens – 2.2.i. Worldwide – 2.3 Chenopodium giganteum – 2.4 Reference – 3. List of culinary, root and common leaf vegetables – 3.1 List of culinary vegetables – 3.1.i. Leafy and salad vegetables – 3.1.ii. Fruits – 3.1.iii. Flowers and flower buds – 3.1.iv. Podded vegetables (legumes) – 3.1.v. Bulb and stem vegetables – 3.1.vi. Root and tuberous vegetables – 3.1.vii. Sea vegetables – 3.2 List of root vegetables – 3.2.i. True root – 3.2.ii. Modified plant stem – 3.2.iii. Bulb – 3.3 List of common leaf vegetables – 3.4 Case study: list of vegetables in Assam – 3.5 Select vegetable details – 3.5.i. Ackee – 3.5.ii. Armenian cucumber – 3.5.iii. Bean – 3.5.iv. Okra – 3.5.v. Bitter melon – 3.5.vi. Breadfruit – 3.5.vii. Caigua – 3.5.viii. Caabash – 3.5.ix. Calabaza – 3.5.x. Chayote – 3.5.xi. Coccinia grandis – 3.5.xii. Cucumber – 3.5.xiii. Cucumis anguria – 3.5.xiv. Gherkin – 3.5.xv. Green bean – 3.5.xvi. Luffa – 3.5.xvii. Maize – 3.5.xviii. Melothria scabra – 3.5.xix. Pea – 3.5.xx. Physalis peruviana – 3.5.xxi. Plantain – 3.5.xxii. Pumpkin – 3.5.xxiii. Tinda – 3.5.xxiv. Tomatillo – 3.5.xxv. Winter melon – 3.5xxvi. Zucchini – 3.6 References – 4. Key factors in vegetable and crop production – 4.1 Key factors – 4.1.i. Selection of site – 4.1.ii. Field topography – 4.1.iii. Quality and soil type – 4.1.iv. Water – 4.1.v. Crop and variety selection – 4.1.vi. Market development – 4.2 Case study: national vegetable production in EU grew in 2009 – 4.2.i. Vegetable imports dropped by 27% in first 11 months of 2009 – 4.2.ii. Vegetable exports grew by 120% over January-November 2009 – 4.2.iii. Fertilizing vegetables: summary for most crops – 4.2.iv. Tips on irrigating vegetables – 4.2.v. When to irrigate – 4.2.vi. Your soil as an irrigation guide – 4.2.vii. Best irrigation system – 4.2.viii. Sprinklers – 4.2.ix. Irrigating the whole field at one time – 4.2.x. Pick the right pump – 4.2.xi. Nozzle wear: how far gone are your sprinkler nozzles? – 4.3 Vegetable crop production – 4.3.i. Selecting vegetable crops for profit – 4.3.ii. General crop decisions – 4.3.iii. Climatic requirements – 4.4. iv. Rotation considerations – 4.4.v. Equipment requirements – 4.4.vi. Pollination and fruit set requirements – 4.4.vii. Pest management – 4.4.viii. Labor requirements – 4.4.ix. Harvest considerations – 4.4.x. Market considerations – 4.4. Commercial organic vegetable production guide – 4.4.i. Organic production – 4.4.ii. Characteristics of organic farms – 4.4.iii. Key to successful organic vegetable production – 4.5. Organic greenhouse vegetable production guide – 4.5.i. The greenhouse vegetable industry – 4.5.ii. Small growers – 4.5.iii. Solar greenhouse – 4.5.iv. Composting greenhouses – 4.5.v. Animal-heated greenhouses – 4.5.vi. Organic greenhouse production – 4.5.vii. Fertility – 4.5.viii. Soil vs. soilless culture – 4.5.ix. Soil culture – 4.5.x. Cover cropping in ground culture – 4.5.x.i. Weed control in ground culture systems – 4.5.x.ii. Soil disinfection in ground culture systems – 4.5.xiii. Resources in ground culture systems – 4.5.xiv. Soilless culture – 4.5.xv. Bag culture – 4.5.xvi. Hydroponics – 4.5.xvii. Variety selection – 4.5.xviii. Economics of greenhouse vegetable production – 4.5.xvix. Developments in the greenhouse industry in the last decade – 4.5.xx. Organic food production – 4.6. Plastic tunnels for early vegetable production – 4.6.i. Labor intensive vegetable crops/small farm fresno county – 4.6.ii. Plastic tunnels – 4.6.iii. Crops planted under tunnels – 4.6.iv. Market prices – 4.6.v. Types of tunnels – 4.6.vi. The Spanish tunnel – 4.6.vii. Equipment to lay plastic tunnels – 4.6.viii. Building plastic tunnels – 4.6.ix. Farming and cultural practices with tunnels – 4.6.x. Plastic mulches – 4.6.xi. Ways to plant – 4.6.xii. Venting – 4.6.xiii. Frost protection – 4.6.xiv. Best irrigation – 4.6.xv. Fertilizers use – 4.6.xvi. Pest and diseases as problem – 4.6.xvii. Wind as proble – 4.6.xviii. Other problems – 4.6.xix. Weed control – 4.6.xx. Planning ahead – 4.6.xxi. Weed control before planting – 4.6.xxii. Herbicides – 4.6.xxiii. Fesibility of tunnels – 4.6.xxiv. Added income derived from plastic tunnels – 4.6.xxiv. Added expenses of using tunnels – 4.6.xxv. Reduced expenses associated with this change – 4.6.xxvi. Decreased income because of the change to plastic tunnels – 4.7 Disease resistance in fruit and vegetables – 4.7.i. The Apple: an example – 4.7.ii. Resistance and immunity – 4.8. References – 5. Crop production, harvest, yield and other related factors – 5.1. Crop production – 5.2.i. Postharvest – 5.2.ii. Postharvest shelf life – 5.2.iii. Postharvest physiology – 5.2.iv. Post-harvest handling – 5.3. Crop yield – 5.3.i. History – 5.3.ii. Crop insurance – 5.3.iii. Crop residue – 5.3.iv. Crop weed – 5.3.v. Crop wild relative – 5.3.vi. Crop diversity – 5.4 Pollen source – 5.4.i. Saturation pollination – 5.4.ii. Fruit tree pollination – 5.5. References – 6. Select crop production requirements, management practices: a case study – 6.1. Crop production requirements – 6.1.i. Soil management – 6.1.ii. Nutrient management – 6.1.iii. Factors impacting soil nutrient availability and crop performance – 6.1.iv. Fertilizer ratios needed to equal leaf analysis: 15 - 3.5 - 11.25 – 6.1.v. Fertilizing crops organically – 6.2 Pulse – 6.2.i. World economy – 6.2.ii. Classification – 6.2.iii. Protein content – 6.2.iv. Health – 6.2.v. Soybean management practices – 6.3. Environmental benefits of biotech soybeans – 6.3.i. View ASA's conservation tillage study – 6.4. Importance of water management in crop production – 6.5 Case study: India's major crop production – 6.5.i. Crops production – 6.5.ii. Kharif crop prospects - estimated production – 6.5.iii. Food-grains production performance – 6.5.iv. Crop outlook – 6.5.v. Achievements – 6.5.vi. Programme proposed for the Year 2002-03 and remaining period of Xth plan – 6.6. Case study: current status of fruit production in India – 6.6.i. Vegetables – 6.7. References – 7. Agricultural productivity tips and select agricultural revolutions – 7.1. Agricultural productivity – 7.1.i. Importance of agricultural productivity – 7.1.ii. Agricultural productivity and sustainable development – 7.1.iii. Productive farms – 7.2 Agriculture tips – 7.2.i. Crop production tips – 7.2.ii. Tips in selecting the best corn hybrid – 7.2.iii. Tips in planting hybrid rice – 7.2.iv. Tips in storing fresh tomatoes – 7.2.v. Livestock production tips – 7.2.vi. Producing your own probiotics – 7.2.vii. Other agriculture tips – 7.3 Green revolution – 7.3.i. History – 7.3.ii. Agricultural production and food security – 7.3.iii. Criticisms – 7.3.iv. Norman Borlaug's response to criticism – 7.4 British agricultural revolution – 7.4.i. Enclosure – 7.4.ii. Mechanization – 7.4.iii. Three-field crop rotation – 7.4.iv. Selective breeding – 7.5 References. 9788131311028

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