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Commercial floriculture, which encompasses production and tradeof cut flowers, foliage plants, potted plants, landscape plants,bedding plants, seed production, dried flowers and plant parts,perfumes and essential oils and natural dyes, is an emerging areain the present scenario and has been identified as one of thepossible areas for diversification into a viable agri-businessoption. Among various aspects of floriculture, the essential oil,dried flower and cut flower industries are emerging as powerfulengines for economic growth.
The present work is aimed to bring out comprehensive informationon relevance of post harvest technology in commercial aspects offloriculture. The book contains chapters giving exhausted materialon quality control and standardization in the perfume and essentialoils and techniques that are employed for analysis of essentialoils with information on chemical constituents and sensoryevaluation of essential oils. Processing techniques and qualityattributes are discussed in detail. It also gives description ofornamental and aromatic plants which are sources of fragrances.Processing and preservation techniques of flowers along with usingtheir various parts for value addition has been discusses in fulldetail.
Evaluation of quality factors for floricultural crops givesdetail information on various pre-harvest, harvest and post-harvestfactors affecting the quality of floriculture crops mainly cutflowers.ISBN - 9789381450048
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Pages : 390
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