Production Technology Of Vegetables And Flowers

by Deepali Tewari, Ajit Kumar

Overview

The book “Production Technology of Vegetables and Flowers” is written to serve a complete text book for graduate and early post graduate students of State Agriculture Universities as well as horticultural universities. It covers thorough information about economic as well as nutritional importance of vegetables, types of vegetable gardens, complete classification, research and development in vegetables along with future priorities and complete package and practices for most of the important cultivated vegetables in India including Fruit crops, Cucurbits, Cole Crops, Bulb Crops, Peas and Beans, Tuber crops, Root Crops, Green Leafy Vegetables and Perennial Vegetables. The second part of book deals with importance and types of ornamental gardens, uses of trees, shrubs, house plant and palms and package of practices for Rose, Jasmine, Chrysanthemum ,Crossandra, Marigold and Tuberose. This book will act as Complete Text Book for students preparing for various competitive exams due to following features: Based on ICAR, syllabus, Has latest upgraded data Contains important questions after each chapter.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789387214446
Publisher:	Write & Print Publications
Publication date:	06/30/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	490
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Dr. Deepali Tewari is working as Subject Matter Specialist/Assistant Professor (Horticulture) at GB Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar. She has done her Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Vegetable Science from GB Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar. She was awarded the best Ph.D. award by Government of U.P. for the year 2001. Before joining this university, for more than two years, she worked as “Programme Manager” in a World Bank project “Diversified Agriculture Supporting Project (DASP)” at U.P. Council of Agricultural Research handling 59 projects spread all over Uttarakhand and U.P. During her 11 years tenure at GB Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, she worked for development of farmers at grass root level (Krishi Vigyan Kendras) as well as at headquarters (coordinating development activities of 11 KVKs under the aegis of university). In her eight years into academics, she taught graduates as well post graduate students. She has been CoPI in four research projects funded by DST, DBT and ICAR. Her areas of interest include vegetable production and improvement, rural development, women empowerment and application of ICT in agricultural development.