Fruits for Livelihood: Production Technology and Management Practices

Contents: Part A: Scenario, Importance and Production Technologies: 1. Important Fruits of India: Scenario, Export Potentiality and Production Technologies/Avijit Kr. Dutta. 2. Status of Underutilized Fruits in India: A Brief Overview/R. K. Singh, R. Kumar and M. Prasad. 3. Annona: A Lesser Known Fruit of India/Animesh Sarkar. 4. Aonla: A Fruit for Marginal Lands/Brijesh Pandey and Ashok Kumar. 5. Bael: A Fruit of Immense Medicinal Properties/Brijesh Pandey and Neha Rajan. 6. Ber: A Minor Fruit for Dry Land Farming/Avijit Kr. Dutta and R. N. Ray. 7. Carambola: An Underexploited Miracle Fruit/Avijit Kr. Dutta. 8. Jackfruit: A Minor Fruit of the Tropics/C S Maiti. 9. Jamun: An Indigenous Underutilized Fruit of India/Sutanu Maji and Shubhranshu Sengupta. 10. Karonda: A Potential Minor Fruit for Jharkhand/Avijit Kr. Dutta and Shubhranshu Sengupta. 11. Kendu: A Fruit of the Forest for Tribal Livelihood/Avijit Kr. Dutta. 12. Monkey Jack (Artocarpus lakoocha Roxb.): Hope for Sustaining Livelihood/S. K. Bishnoi, R. Shinde and P. K. Sarkar. 13. Pear (Pyrus pyrifolia L.): A Potential Source of Livelihood for Primitive Tribes of Jharkhand/M. K. Dhakar, B. Das, S. Kumar and M. Kundu. 14. Pepino: A Lesser Known Underutilized Fruit of the North East/Animesh Sarkar. 15. Tamarind (Tamarindus indica L.): A Potential Source of Hope for the Poor Farm Families/M. Prasad, K. Barman and R. K. Singh. 16. Wood Apple: A Semi-wild Popular Minor Fruit of India/K. Dey, A. Ghosh, F. K. Bauri, D. K. Mishra and P. Choudhuri. 17. Under-Exploited Fruits of the Forests: Eastern Indian Plateau is a Potential Hub/P. K. Sarkar, S. K. Bishnoi and R. Shinde. Part B: Post-Harvest Management, Processing and Value Addition: 18. Post-Harvest Treatments used in Delaying the Ripening and Senescence of Fruits/Payel Panja, Pran Krishna Thakur and Uddipta Ghosh. 19. Reduction of Post-Harvest Losses of Horticultural Produces/Goutam Mandal. 20. Emerging Methods of Processing and Preservation of Fruits/P. Kandasamy. 21. Minimal Processing of Fruits/Payel Panja and Uddipta Ghosh. 22. Processing and Value Addition of Some Arid Fruit Crops/Ghosh, K. Dey, P. Dutta, S. Das and B. C. Das. 23. Post-Harvest Management and Value Addition of Some Minor Fruits of Jharkhand/Anjali Chandra and Ajeet Kr. Singh. 24. Value Addition of Ber and Jamun: An Option to Boost Rural Economy/Karuna Kumari, Gopal Krishna and Anil Kumar. 25. Value Addition in Minor Fruits of Eastern India: An Opportunity to Generate Rural Employment/Anuradha Srivastava, Santosh Kumar Bishnoi and Pradip Kumar Sarkar. Part C: Fruit Farming and Livelihood Opportunities. 26. Livelihood Security through Fruit Farming/Arunava Sengupta. 27. Edible Wild Fruits in Rural Livelihood with Reference to Medicinal, Nutritional and Economic Aspects/Dipankar Chatterjee. 28. Fruit Farming, Sustainable Agriculture and Livelihood Security in India/Samik Sengupta, S. M. Rahaman and Basabdatta Das. 29. Commercial Utility of Ber (Ziziphus mauritiana): A Mean for Livelihood Security/R. K. Yogi, A. K. Jaiswal and K. K. Sharma. 30. Economic Approach of Fruit Farming: An Example of Banana Cultivation/Punit Kr. Agarwal and Pushpa Yadav. 31. Growing Sapota in Low-Lying Areas of Sundarbans: A Successful Alternative to Revive Rural Economy in Coastal India/Chandan Kumar Mondal and Nilendu Jyoti Maitra. 32. Mahua: A Prospective Source of Tribal Livelihood/Debjit Roy and Kaushik Das. 33. Growth and Development of Horticulture and its Impact on Livelihood: A Case Study of Sikkim/D. Sarkar, D. Majumder and R. K. Biswas. 34. Apiculture and Fruit Farming: An Option to Promote Livelihood/M. K. Chakravarty, S. J. Prasanthi and R. Kumar. 35. Fruit Farming and Sustainable Livelihood Security: e-Resources/Kumar, R. Kumar, R. K. Yogi and Ranvir Kumar. Part D: Complementary Studies and Miscellaneous Aspects: 36. Strategies for Organic Fruit Production/Piyali Dutta, Koyel Dey and Arkendu Ghosh. 37. Propagation of Different Tropical and Sub-Tropical Fruits/Sanjoy Ku.…