Postharvest Management of Horticultural Produce

AUTHOR’S: R.T. Patil, Desh Beer Singh and R.K. Gupta
PUBLISHER: Daya Publishing House
ISBN: 9788170356080
YEAR: 2009
PAGES: 300
SIZE: 16 X 24 X 2.3 cms.
BINDING: Hard
LANGUAGE: English

ABOUT THE BOOK: This book is offering comprehensive coverage of the subject "Postharvest Management of Horticultural Produce" useful for horticulturists, processors, entrepreneurs, transporters, nutritionists, scientists, UG and PG students of this discipline. The book covers detailed information on suitable varieties, composition, harvesting, grading, sorting, cold storage conditions, various disorders, diseases and management of fruit and vegetable crops so that post harvest life of these perishable commodities can be extended and losses can be reduced. Subject matter is described from the preliminary to the present level of knowledge in a systematic manner. The book is well illustrated. describing the state of art technology.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR’S:
1. Dr. R.T. Patil is presently holding the post of Director of Central Institute of Post-Harvest Engineering and Technology (CIPHET) under ICAR which is a nodal institute to undertake lead researches in Post Harvest Management and Value Addition. Dr. Patil has B. Tech. degree (Ag. Engg), M. Tech (Crop Process Engineering) from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India and PhD in Bio Process Engineering from University of Saskatchewan, Canada and finished 2 years of Post Doctoral Fellowship at Washington State University, Pullman (USA). He has 28 years of research experience in food process engineering. He has contributed 5 books/bulletins and 5 book chapters. His areas of expertise are drying and dehydration, novel product development, physical properties and advanced extrusion processing. Dr. Patil has so far developed 16 research prototypes, 5 process protocols, 3 pilot plants and contributed to two US patents and three Indian patents with over 100 papers published- in national and international journals and over 100 presentations (4 presentation awarded best paper award) in national and international conferences. He is a recipient of Best Graduate thesis award of Canadian Society of Agricultural Engineers for his PhD and the team award from Ministry of Education, Government of Poland for Thermal Processing of Bio Materials. He was elected as Director (Food Process Engineering) of ISAE during 1998-2000 and was elected three times as Vice President of Indian Society of Agricultural Engineers and presently he is Vice President, Association of Food Scientists and Technologist, India.

2. Dr. Desh Beer Singh is presently Principal Scientist (Horticulture) at Central Institute of Temperate Horticulture (ICAR), Srinagar, J&K. He got his Masters degree from Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana and Ph. D degree in the field of Horticulture from Agra University, Agra. His field of specialization is production and post harvest management of horticultural produce and its value addition. Further he has obtained advanced training from USDA, USA in the field of conservation of plant genetic resources and from RAS, Russia in the field of post harvest management of horticultural produce. Dr. Singh has also identified a new species of banana and several unexploited tribal fruits from Andaman forests. He has contributed 7 bulletins, 8 book chapters, and published more than 70 research papers and 3 books besides 40 presentations in various national and international conferences (2 presentations awarded as best paper award). Dr. Singh has also guided students for their master's degree and M. Phil programme. He has been a part time faculty member of Institute of Business Management, RAU Bikaner and is also an invited member in Board of Post Graduate Studies, Nagaland University, Nagaland. He is also life member of many professional societies like Indian Society of Horticulture, ISAE, and Indian Society of Arid Horticulture. He has been rewarded by SAARC Agricultural Information Center for his success story on production of pineapple round the year in Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

3. Dr. R.K. Gupta is currently Head, Horticultural Crop Processing Division, CIPHET Campus, Abohar. He has obtained his bachelor degree in Agricultural Engineering from Allahabad University in 1981 and M.Tech. Degree in Post Harvest Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 1984. Further, Dr. Gupta had obtained PG Diploma in Food Processing Management from International Institute of Management, Masstricht, The Netherlands in 1992 and Ph.D. from IIT Kharagpur in 1997 in the area of Agricultural and Food Engineering, More than 22 years, he is engaged in research and development and training in the area of post harvest technology and engineering of food crops. He was involved in the development of process technology and equipments for value addition of oilseeds including few minor oilseeds. Dr. Gupta is having proven record of scientific contribution with sufficient published work in his credit. He is also one of the authors of books namely Physico-chemical constituents and Engineering properties of Food crops and Oilseeds Processing. Besides, he had authored many research bulletins, technical repots and extension leaflets. He is also life member of various professional societies like ISAE, AFST (I), Bioved Research Society and Oilseeds Research Society. Further, he has visited Netherlands and England to enrich his knowledge in the area of post harvest technology and management.

CONTENTS:
Preface
Introduction
Fruits
1. Grape
2. Mango
3. Pineapple
4. Papaya
5. Apple
6. Pear
7. Plum
8. Peach and Nectarine
9. Pomegranate
10. Apricot
11. Banana
12. Guava
13. Sweet Orange
14. Mandarin Orange
15. Passion Fruit
16. Sweet Cherry
17. Date
18. Fig
19. Jackfruit
20. Kiwifruit
21. Litchi
22. Sapota or Sapodilla
23. Strawberry
24. Lemon
25. Watermelon
26. Musk Melon

Vegetables
27. Capsicum
28. Cabbage
29. Cauliflower
30. Carrot
31. Cucumber
32. Brinjal
33. Garlic
34. Okra
35. Onion
36. Pea
37. Pumpkin
38. Radish
39. Spinach (Palak)
40. Sweet Potato
41. Tomato
42. Potato
43. French Beans
Annexure – I
Literature
Index