Bøger af Jeetendra Kumar Soni

This book emphasizes the importance of spice crops and provides detailed improved technologies for ginger and turmeric production to boost productivity for Mizoram. It also highlights major constraints in major spice production including diseases and pests and their necessary solutions including integrated management practices which will minimise risks to human health, animals, plants, and the environment while ensuring stable crop production and keeping pathogen/pest damage below the threshold level. It also sums up the local germplasm collection for ginger and turmeric of Mizoram and the cultivation technology described in this book will aid farmers in cultivating these crops properly. This book also specifies the progress of spice research and technology developed so far under ICAR-AICRP on Spices (Mizoram Centre) and the prospects of major spice cultivation. This book is intended to assist horticultural professionals and researchers in their area of work, as well as farmers to improve their ginger and turmeric production and its processing options and also expand their production of local ginger and turmeric germplasm.