High-Value Plants (eBook)

Novel Insights and Biotechnological Advances

Prakash Kumar Sarangi, Ch. Brajakishore Singh, Thangjam Anand Singh (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
284 Seiten
Apple Academic Press (Verlag)
978-1-000-99156-7 (ISBN)

Infos

High-value crops are non-staple plants that give much higher return per unit area than staple crops. Diversification and investing towards high-value crops can potentially increase farm incomes, making them more attractive to new and small-scale agricultural farmers. This new volume explores the biotechnological applications for the unique high-value crops in response to the impending high-value agriculture revolution. The book discusses traditional knowledge, nutritional value, phytochemical activity, value addition quality, and postharvest management of some select unique high-value crops, including black ginger, bastard oleaster, Swertia chirayita, Garcinia, Parkia timoriana (or tree bean), king chili, Chenopodium (or goosefoot), sea buckthorn, broom grass, lichens, and others.High-Value Plants: Novel Insights and Biotechnological Advances provides important information for small-scale farmers and agricultural and horticultural professionals to consider diversifying into non-traditional, high-value, agricultural crops, an important area of potential income growth in rural areas.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.11.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• ISBN-10: 1-000-99156-3 / 1000991563
• ISBN-13: 978-1-000-99156-7 / 9781000991567