Author: K. R. LakshmiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Long-term Trends in Production of Tuber Crops
Author: K. R. LakshmiUnderground Crops
Author: Douglas E. HortonPublisher: Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Roots crop characteristics; Accuracy of root crop statistics; About the tables; A note on African root crops data.
Roots and Tubers for the 21st Century
Author: Gregory J. ScottPublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN: 0896296350
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 79
Book Description
Synthesizes a significant amount of data and information on roots and tubers in an effort to provide a clearer vision of their past, present, and future roles in the food systems of developing countries. How the production and use of these commodities have changed and will continue to change over time are all the more important to understand because of the contribution they make to the diets and income-generating activities of the rural and urban poor in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Provides a fuller understanding of the prospects of roots and tubers for food, feed, and other uses in developing countries.
Tropical Root and Tuber Crops
Author: I. C. OnwuemePublisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9789251034613
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Tropical Roots and Tubers
Author: Harish K. SharmaPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118992695
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Roots and tubers are considered as the most important food crops after cereals and contribute significantly to sustainable development, income generation and food security especially in the tropical regions. The perishable nature of roots and tubers demands appropriate storage conditions at different stages starting from farmers to its final consumers. Because of their highly perishable nature, search for efficient and better methods of preservation/processing have been continuing alongside the developments in different arena. This book covers the processing and technological aspects of root and tuber foods, detailing the production and processing of roots and tubers such as taro, cassava, sweet potato, yam and elephant foot yam. Featuring chapters on anatomy, taxonomy and physiology, molecular and biochemical characterization, GAP, GMP, HACCP, Storage techniques, as well as the latest technological interventions in Taro, Cassava, Sweet potato, yam and Elephant foot Yam.
Roots and Tubers in the Global Food System
Author: Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research. Committee on Inter-Centre Root and Tuber Crops ResearchPublisher: IITA
ISBN: 9789290602033
Category : Root crops
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
In 1995, TAC commissioned an Inter-Centre Review of Root and Tuber Crops Research in the CGIAR, and that group's final report was submitted in April 1996. Among its findings, the review recommended that the Centers working on these crops prepare, in consultation with non-CGIAR members, "a comprehensive, documented text that sets out a vision for root and tuber research employing inter-Centre collaborations and institutional partnerships ... "(TAC, 1997). At International Centers' Week 1996, representatives of CIAT, CIP, IFPRI, IPGRI, and IITA met, formed an informal committee, and established a task force to prepare such a report, with CIP and CIAT representatives acting as co-convenors. This document synthesizes the principal findings of the subsequent work. Roots and tuber crops have myriad and complex roles to play in feeding the world in the coming decades. Far from being one sort of crop that serves one specific purpose, they will be many things to many-very many-people.
Adding Value to Root and Tuber Crops: A Manual on Product Development
Author: Christopher WheatleyPublisher: CIAT
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Tuber & Root Crops
Author: Mari Sivaswani PalaniswamiPublisher: New India Publishing
ISBN: 9788189422530
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Tuber and root crops are the third important group of food crops after cereals and pulses, feeding about one fifth of the world population. With the burgeoning population coupled with limited land, water and other resources, the future beckons tuber and root crops in fulfilling the country's food requirements. These crops have higher biological efficiency and greater adoption with profound production potential per unit area per unit time. Tuber and root crops are well known from time immemorial as nature's energy bank and famine savior. This book is conceived to have an updated version on the tuber and root crops especially in the Indian context, including information on the history, biodiversity, geographical distribution, botany, neutraceutical and pharmaceutical values, new varieties, production technologies, IPM strategies, starches, post harvest technologies and value added products, bio-processing, biotechnology, ITK and future thrusts. Various aspects of cassava, sweet potato, elephant foot yam, taro, yams, coleus, yam bean and arrow root are elucidated in 17 s and appendices. This book will be of immense use to the policy makers, scientists, post graduate and under graduate students and officials concerned with tuber and root crops research, development and extension.
Potato and Sweetpotato in Africa
Author: Jan LowPublisher: CABI
ISBN: 1780644205
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 663
Book Description
Sweetpotato and potato are expanding faster than any other food crops in sub-Saharan Africa. There is growing investment in research to address bottlenecks in value chains concerning these two crops, and growing interest from the private sector in investing in them. This book addresses five major themes on sweetpotato and potato: policies for germplasm exchange, food security and trade in Africa; seed systems; breeding and disease management; post-harvest management, processing technologies and marketing systems; nutritional value and changing behaviours.
Tropical Roots and Tubers
Author: Harish K. SharmaPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 111899275X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Roots and tubers are considered as the most important food crops after cereals and contribute significantly to sustainable development, income generation and food security especially in the tropical regions. The perishable nature of roots and tubers demands appropriate storage conditions at different stages starting from farmers to its final consumers. Because of their highly perishable nature, search for efficient and better methods of preservation/processing have been continuing alongside the developments in different arena. This book covers the processing and technological aspects of root and tuber foods, detailing the production and processing of roots and tubers such as taro, cassava, sweet potato, yam and elephant foot yam. Featuring chapters on anatomy, taxonomy and physiology, molecular and biochemical characterization, GAP, GMP, HACCP, Storage techniques, as well as the latest technological interventions in Taro, Cassava, Sweet potato, yam and Elephant foot Yam.