6 Best Books on Plantation Crops

“Advances in the Diseases of Plantation Crops and Spices” Book Review: Streamlined to facilitate student understanding, this latest edition, containing the latest techniques, methodologies and new problems provides a comprehensive treatment of diseases of major plantation crops and species in India. It also deals with the nutritional disorders and their management in these crops. This book is designed for researchers working on plantations and species crops, plant pathologists, students, teachers, extension workers as well as progressive farmers all over the country and world-wide.

“Plantation Crops, Plunder and Power: Evolution and exploitation (Earthscan Food and Agriculture)” Book Review: This textbook deals with the elementary aspects of development, with special emphasis on the topics like forest sustainability, forestry and possible climate change, structural changes in markets for forest products and services, policy analysis, and forest sector information services and research methodology so that the subject is perceived by the student as both a science and an art. The theories and explanations are supported by a large number of solved examples. Additional figures have also been added for the clarity and understanding of the book. Multiple choice questions and other pedagogically arranged questions are also provided to help students assess their subject knowledge. This book is designed primarily as a textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate students. Also provided in the book is a debate on forest decline and possible climate change.

“Management of Tropical Plantation Forests and Their Soil Litter System: Litter, Biota and Soil Nutrient Dynamics” Book Review: This book provides enough coverage, up to point solutions as well as sufficient exercises for the readers desiring to gain maximum knowledge after the completion of the book. Chapters provided in the book are on ecological functioning of the soil litter system of tropical plantation forests in relation to their management, which is of crucial importance for the growth of trees and sustainability of the ecosystem. Plethora of solved examples are included in every chapter of the book. Students pursuing environmental biology, ecology, soil biology, soil science, plant ecology, plantation managing, forest conservation etc can benefit hugely from the book. Students preparing for various competitive examinations may also find it beneficial.

“A2Z Solutions Horticulture at a Glance Vol. – I, (Fruits and Plantation Crops)” Book Review: This book on Economics, published in the year 1948, is the guideline for the Horticulture courses provided all over the country. This course is generally offered to students at the first to third graduate college year, preferably after elementary courses in general modern horticulture and agriculture courses. It has also been revised from time-to-time to contain all the relevant changes happening each year. Chapters on Fruits and Plantation Crops are also provided in the subsequent chapters of the book.

“Forest Plantation Development and Management in Ghana (Environmental Science and Engineering)” Book Review: This book is presented as a combination of analytical rigour as well as accessibility. New chapters such as plantation forestry in context, forest growth dynamics and assessments, plantation silviculture and management, forest plantation economics and international climate change policy have been added to the existing edition of the book. Also provided in the book are a plethora of examples as well as exercise questions to practice as well as test the concepts grasped by the book. It also has all-round answers to questions like importance of Ghana’s forest resources and their current state, descriptions of the critical silvics of six tree species, nursery practices and planting, tools and data requirements for carrying out economic analyses of plantation forestry investments etc. Students preparing for various competitive examinations as well as undergraduate students may find it fruitful.

“Steam Engineering on Sugar Plantations, Steamships, and Locomotive Engines” Book Review: This book is a teaching aid as well as a practical guide for undergraduate students pursuing subjects like environmental biology, ecology, soil biology, soil science, plant ecology, plantation managing, forest conservation etc in their course syllabus. Several important concepts such as steam engineering on sugar plantation as well as locomotive engines are covered extensively by the author in this textbook.