Future Crops : Volume. I

Contents Acknowledgements Foreword Preface Introduction 1 Chayote Sechium Edule Jacq WsartzAmish K Sureja 2 Cluster Bean Cyamopsis tetragonoloba LHR Mahla BR Choudhary and Dheeraj Singh 3 Date Palm Phoenix Dactylifera L Under hot arid regionRS Singh R Bhargava and DG Dhandar 4 Grain Amaranth Amaranthus sppKKrishnakumary 5 Kair Capparis deciduas Forsk EdgewDheeraj Singh HR Mahla MK Choudhary H Dayal ML Meena and HS Jat 6 Lettuce Lactuca sativa LAnant Bahadur and KP Singh 7 Lichens and future foodTrupti Mohaptra R Valarmathi and GN Hariharan 8 Longan Dimocarpous longan lourRajesh Kumar 9 Noni Morinda citrifolia LDR Singh Shrawan Singh and RC Srivastava 10 Rambutan Nephelium lappaceum LRajesh Kumar 11 Saffron Crocus sativus LMohammad Ali Behdani 12 Spearmint Mentha spicata LMishra 13 Threatened medicinal and aromatic plants of MizoramTK Hazarika and BP Nautiyal 14 Underutilized vegetables of KashmirN Jabeen S Mufi and SH Khan 15 Vegetable Pigeonpea Cajanus cajan L MillspaughCLL Gowda RK Srivastava KBSaxena and RV Kumar IndexScience and Technology led Horticulture would lead India to meet the three of the ten Millennium Development Goals MDG set to achieve by 2015 writes Dr RS  Paroda Chairman Trust for Advancement of Agricultural Sciences TAAS New Delhi in the foreword to the book Future Crops The interstate and inter country migration throws newer opportunities for type and nature of food Rice consumption is going down in developed countries and getting reduced in developing countries Hitherto under exploited and underutilized horticultural crops are getting attention because of their lesser water requirement higher productivityunit of time and space and richness in nutrients-macro micro antioxidants These are time tested region specific consumer centered and traditional knowledge based crops At a point of time they were major crops got renegated to underutilized ones and now projected as Future Crops The Future Crops should meet future challenges in climate policies depleted biodiversity newer life styles and food habits writes HS Gupta Director Indian Agriculture Research Institute New Delhi in his preface to the book The first volume deals with chayote cluster bean date palm grain amaranth kair lettuce litchens as food longan noni rambutan saffron spearmint and vegetable pigeon pea Two chapters deal with threatened medicinal and aromatic plants of Mizoram and underutilized vegetables of MizoramBy 2020 India alone requires 200 million tones of vegetables and 180 million tones of fruits to meet the nutrient requirement of 1250 million people Climate change by 2 degree centigrade will induce early flowering and lesser yield compounded by drought and flood Future Horticultural Crops vegetables fruits tubes plantation crops spices aromatic and medicinal plants ornamentals mushrooms litchens etc both terrestrial and aquatic would be the sure bet for human existence along with supporting fauna and flora 286 pp.…