Value Addition of Horticultural Crops: Recent Trends and Future Directions

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Sharangi, Amit Baran (Editor), Datta, Suchand (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New Delhi : Springer India : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Chemistry.; Food > Biotechnology.; Biodiversity.; Plant breeding.; Food Science.; Plant Breeding/Biotechnology.

This book combines several ideas and philosophies and provides a detailed discussion on the value addition of fruits, vegetables, spices, plantation crops, floricultural crops and in forestry. Separate chapters address the packaging, preservation, drying, dehydration, total quality management and su...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Preparation of Value Added Products through Preservation
• 3. Value Addition in Vegetable Crops
• 4. Value addition in spice crops
• 5. Value Addition in flowers
• 6. Flower arrangement towards value addition
• 7. Value Added Products from Medicinal Plants
• 8. Post harvest, product diversification and value addition in coconut
• 9. Product diversification of arecanut, cashew nut and oil palm
• 10. Value Addition of Fruits and Vegetable through Drying and Dehydration
• 11. Value Addition of Fruits and Vegetables through Packaging
• 12. Breeding methods for quality improvement in horticultural crops
• 13. Value addition of non-timber forest products: Prospects, constraints and mitigation
• 14. Mitigate climate change, use processed or value added harvested wood products
• 15. Essential oil: Its economic aspect, extraction, importance, uses, hazards and quality
• 16. Total Quality Management in Horticulture: Concepts and Modalities
• 17. Supply Chain Management of Horticultural Crops
• 18. Development of Women Entrepreneur through Value Addition of Horticultural Crops
• 19. Phytophthora -a member of the Sixth kingdom revisited as a threat to food security in the 21st century
• 20. Future Directions. .