Tropical vegetable production

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: George, Raymond A. T. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI , c2011
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Site, topography, soils and water
  • 3. Site management, seeds and types of cultivars
  • 4. Support for farmers
  • 5. Crop preparation and maangement
  • 6. Reducing pre- and postharvest losses and marketing surpluses
  • 7. Alliaceae - onions and related crops
  • 8. Cruciferae - crucifers
  • 9. Cucurbitaceae - cucurbits, the vine crops
  • 10. Solanaceae
  • tomatoes and related crops
  • 11. Leguminosae - beans and related crops
  • 12. Leafy vegetables
  • 13. Araceae, convolvulaceae, dioscoreaceae, euphorbiaceae - tropical tubers
  • 14. Andean tubers and roots and crops of the limiaceae and apiaceae
  • 15. Gramineae and cyperaceae