Breadfruit Production Guide

Breadfruit Production Guide
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Publisher : Permanent Agriculture Resources
Total Pages : 42
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1939618037
ISBN-13 : 9781939618030
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis Breadfruit Production Guide by : Craig R. Elevitch

Despite increasing consumer demand and an imminent production surge in breadfruit, a number of barriers must be overcome in order to increase the market availability, distribution, and commercial competitiveness of breadfruit. Many growers have limited understanding of when a fruit is ready to harvest and how to best harvest and handle the fruit to ensure a high quality product is delivered to market. As with any perishable crop-producers must learn proper handling of breadfruit to optimize its value to consumers, and therefore its commercial value. Similarly, chefs and consumers also need essential information on handling and preparation of breadfruit. This comprehensive 36-page guide will help growers ensure that the existing and future breadfruit crop will be used on farm, in the marketplace, or in the consumer's kitchen. This second edition adds kitchen handling tips, nutritional information, and descriptions for three important breadfruit varieties.

Breadfruit Agroforestry Guide

Breadfruit Agroforestry Guide
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 74
Release :
ISBN-10 : 193961807X
ISBN-13 : 9781939618078
Rating : 4/5 (7X Downloads)

Synopsis Breadfruit Agroforestry Guide by : Craig R Elevitch

Breadfruit has been cultivated by people for thousands of years in highly productive plantings together with numerous other crops. This book was written for commercial and home growers looking to combine modern horticultural techniques with traditional growing methods similar to those successfully employed by Pacific Islanders over many centuries. This groundbreaking guide is being released as the prolific Pacific Island staple breadfruit enjoys a resurgence in planting and growing across Hawai'i and around the tropical world. Noted for its high nutritional value, gluten-free status, and moderate glycemic index, breadfruit (called 'ulu in Hawaiian) can be prepared similarly to a potato or yam but has greater versatility and qualities well suited for main dishes, desserts, baked goods, and even beverages. Breadfruit trees are abundant producers and require far less labor compared with other starchy crops such as taro and sweet potato. The guide presents techniques that can sustain productivity for long periods of time, while regenerating land degraded by erosion, compaction, overgrazing, and loss of organic matter. It covers subjects that include recognizing breadfruit varieties; agroforest planning, planting, and maintenance; selection of suitable accompanying crops; value-added products; and economic evaluation. The guide provides a range of growing scenarios from backyard gardens to large farms in the tropics. Using detailed design examples, species tables, and design descriptions and 95 photos and illustrations, this handbook breaks new ground in showing growers how to plan and implement agroforestry that emphasizes breadfruit production. In so doing, growers can design their production to be resilient to changes in weather and market prices-and build a stronger local food system in the process.

Exotic Fruits Reference Guide

Exotic Fruits Reference Guide
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Publisher : Academic Press
Total Pages : 490
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780128031537
ISBN-13 : 0128031530
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis Exotic Fruits Reference Guide by : Sueli Rodrigues

Exotic Fruits Reference Guide is the ultimate, most complete reference work on exotic fruits from around the world. The book focuses on exotic fruit origin, botanical aspects, cultivation and harvest, physiology and biochemistry, chemical composition and nutritional value, including phenolics and antioxidant compounds. This guide is in four-color and contains images of the fruits, in addition to their regional names and geographical locations. Harvest and post-harvest conservation, as well as the potential for industrialization, are also presented as a way of stimulating interest in consumption and large scale production. - Covers exotic fruits found all over the world, described by a team of global contributors - Provides quick and easy access to botanical information, biochemistry, fruit processing and nutritional value - Features four-color images throughout for each fruit, along with its regional name and geographical location - Serves as a useful reference for researchers, industrial practitioners and students

Noni

Noni
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Publisher : PAR
Total Pages : 114
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780970254467
ISBN-13 : 0970254466
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis Noni by : Scot C. Nelson

Specialty Crops for Pacific Islands

Specialty Crops for Pacific Islands
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Publisher : Par
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0970254482
ISBN-13 : 9780970254481
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis Specialty Crops for Pacific Islands by : Craig R. Elevitch

From bamboo to black pepper, cacao to coconut and tea to taro--Specialty Crops for Pacific Islands provides detailed cultivation, value-added, and marketing information for 27 of the most important specialty crops for Pacific Islands and other tropical locations. Specialty crops provide a rapidly growing economic opportunity for innovative farmers and gardeners who are interested in diversifying their products. The book provides insights into sustainable cultivation and processing techniques for local and export markets with an emphasis on innovating production methods, postharvest processing, and marketing. Beautifully illustrated with over 940 color images, each chapter covers a crop in detail. Specialty Crops for Pacific Islands highlights producers from throughout the Pacific and shares their experience--both their challenges and successes. From the publishers of Traditional Trees for Pacific Islands and Agroforestry Guides for Pacific Islands, this 576-page book promotes high-quality food, fiber, and healthcare crops grown in diverse agroforestry systems. The emphasis is on providing small farms with opportunities for local consumption and commercial sale. Specialty Crops for Pacific Islands is a must-have reference book for farmers, gardeners, teachers, and extension agents in the Pacific and throughout the tropics who are interested in new economic opportunities from specialty crops. This is not a book that sits on the shelf, but is thumbed through again and again.

Hawaiian Breadfruit

Hawaiian Breadfruit
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Publisher : College of Tropical Agriculture
Total Pages : 76
Release :
ISBN-10 : MINN:31951D02370497R
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (7R Downloads)

Synopsis Hawaiian Breadfruit by : Brien A. Meilleur

Breadfruit is called 'ulu in Hawaiian. This book is about the ethnographic and ethnohistorical information about the Hawaiian breadfruit tree. It is about the significance of the breadfruit in ancient Hawai'i as a crop and animal feed. It discusses 'ulu as an important component of Hawaiian culture.

Agroforestry Guides for Pacific Islands

Agroforestry Guides for Pacific Islands
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Publisher : PAR
Total Pages : 249
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780970254405
ISBN-13 : 0970254407
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis Agroforestry Guides for Pacific Islands by : Craig R. Elevitch

Growing Koa

Growing Koa
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Publisher : PAR
Total Pages : 114
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780970254429
ISBN-13 : 0970254423
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis Growing Koa by : Kim M. Wilkinson

Diseases of Tropical Fruit Crops

Diseases of Tropical Fruit Crops
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Publisher : CABI
Total Pages : 592
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0851999751
ISBN-13 : 9780851999753
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Synopsis Diseases of Tropical Fruit Crops by : Randy C. Ploetz

Annotation. Comprehensive information on diseases of the most important tropical fruit cropsChapters are devoted to a single or, in some cases, a related group of host plantsThe history, distribution, importance, symptoms, aetiology, epidemiology and management of diseases of each crop are described in detailThis book offers a comprehensive review of diseases of important tropical and some subtropical fruit crops. The history, distribution, importance, etiology, epidemiology and control of diseases of each host crop are covered, along with brief summaries on the taxonomy, origins and characteristics of each host. Additional information is given on the biology and pathology of the causal agents and on new advances that change or otherwise enhance our understanding of the nature and cause of these diseases. Plant pathologists, plantation and nursery managers, lecturers and those who are involved in tropical agriculture and horticulture will find this an essential reference.

Managing Smallholder Teak Plantations

Managing Smallholder Teak Plantations
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Publisher : CIFOR
Total Pages : 96
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9786028693547
ISBN-13 : 6028693545
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis Managing Smallholder Teak Plantations by : Agus Astho Pramono