Overview
- Editors:
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Savita
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Graphic Era Hill University, Dehradun, India
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Monisha Rawat
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Department of Horticulture, School of Agriculture, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, India
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Vrince Vimal
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Graphic Era Hill University, Dehradun, India
- Discusses the nutraceutical importance and cultivation practices of underutilized vegetables
- Explores the production technologies and management practices of underutilized vegetable crops
- Analyzes underutilized vegetable production to assess rural food security needs
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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- Kumari Shubha, Anirban Mukherjee, Nongmaithem R. Singh, Ramnath K. Ray, A. K. Choudhary
Pages 11-23
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- Khushboo Kathayat, Monisha Rawat
Pages 101-112
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- Sandeep Kaur, Monisha Rawat
Pages 113-128
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- Akshita Bisht, Vamsi Krishna, Savita
Pages 173-237
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- Rajkumari Asha Devi, Avinash Kumar, Anil Kumar
Pages 261-279
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- Monisha Rawat, Khushboo Kathayat
Pages 301-307
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- Nikhil Ambish Mehta, Savita
Pages 309-324
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- Sandeep Bagri, Harmeet Singh Janeja
Pages 325-337
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- Johnson Wahengbam, S. Sanathoi Devi, A. M. Raut, A. Najitha Banu
Pages 339-353
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About this book
This volume discusses the nutraceutical importance, production technologies, management and cultivation practices of underutilized vegetables, which can be described as those vegetable crops which are neither grown commercially on a large scale nor traded widely. While much of the crops addressed in the book are cultivated, traded and consumed at the local level, there are over 60 species of minor vegetables with high growth and yield potentials that are not cultivated to a large extent for greater populations. This work highlights the production technologies needed to grow these vegetables on a larger scale and under various adverse soil and climatic conditions, and their nutritional and medical benefits to assist with food security, health and poverty alleviation in rural areas. Production of underutilized vegetables is low, due to the unavailability of planting material, lack of awareness about the nutritional and medicinal importance among the farmers and inadequateinformation on the production techniques of these crops. In this context, there is an urgent need to take up a program on genetic resources exploration, management, utilization, and improvement of underutilized vegetable crops to ensure food and nutritional security. Readers will learn about these technologies and practices, while also learning about the unique properties and benefits of these underutilized vegetables. The book will be useful for academicians and researchers focusing on vegetable production and breeding, as well as farmers and sustainability scientists looking for underexplored sources of nutrition to benefit large rural populations.
Editors and Affiliations
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Graphic Era Hill University, Dehradun, India
Savita,
Vrince Vimal
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Department of Horticulture, School of Agriculture, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, India
Monisha Rawat
About the editors
Dr. Savita is an Assistant Professor at Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar, Punjab, India.
​Dr. Monisha Rawat is an Assistant Professor at Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar, Punjab, India.
