This book was first published under the title Fruits of India: tropical and subtropical. It was updated in 1990 and the title changed to reflect the change in content, a number of fruit crops widely grown in tropical and subtropical regions, but not popular in India, being included. Thirty-one...

This multiauthor book aims to fulfill the need to have, in one volume, comprehensive information on preharvest production, postharvest handling and processing of fruit crops grown throughout the world. An introductory chapter is followed by chapters on individual temperate, subtropical and tropical ...

Indonesian Tropical Fruit Research Institute (ITFRI) is a part of Indonesian Agency of Agricultural Research and Development (IAARD), Department of Agriculture. The responsibility of ITFRI is to produce technologies for increasing competitiveness of tropical fruit agribusiness in the global...

This paper provides a review of the research works on fungal, bacterial, viral and phytoplasmal diseases of aonla (Phyllanthus emblica), bael (Aegle marmelos), ber (Ziziphus mauritiana), pomegranate, fig, jackfruit, karonda (Carissa carandas), phalsa (Grewia asiatica), date palm (Phoenix...

Fruit production has been increasingly playing an important role in agricultural production in Vietnam. In 2016, the area of fruit trees in Vietnam reached 848 thousand hectares with an estimated productivity of over 8 million tons of fruit. Out of the fruit growing areas, the production in the...

The study analyzed the trends, growth rates of area, production and yield of major fruits in Chittagong region and identified factors contributing to output growth during 1993/94-2009/10 using secondary data. The fruits under study were mango, jackfruit, litchi, guava, banana, papaya, ber, pomelo, ...

The hot arid regions in India is spread in an area of 31.7 m ha, majority area being in Rajasthan (61%). The great Indian Thar desert is also located in this region. This region receives vary low rain fall with erratic distribution. Presence of harsh climatic condition such as high...

In host range study artificial inoculation of host plants with C. gloeosporioides infecting sapota revealed that fungus was highly pathogenic to the plant species viz. sapota, khirani, cocum, mango, cashew nut, ramphal, areca nut and papaya while the remaining hosts viz. jackfruit, guava, jamun and ...

This issue presents studies on the leaf area estimation in lychees by means of allometric relationships, dehydration and spraying of buriti (Mauritia flexuosa), quality index and harvest maturity of Eugenia cibrata fruits, Gonodonta (Lepidoptera: Erebidae) species defoliating sugar apple and...

The production of bananas and other tropical fruit crops in the subtropics is highly influenced by climate. In the case of bananas, climate causes undesirable physiological phenomena and long cropping cycles, despite which yields obtained in the subtropics can be excellent. True tropical fruits...