Geography of Black Pepper (Piper nigrum)

Kodoth Prabhakaran Nair is an eminent international agricultural scientist who has worked in Europe, Africa and Asia for more than three decades, during which time he has held a number of prominent academic positions, including the National Chair of the Science Foundation, The Royal Society, Belgium; Professor and Head of the Departments of Agriculture, Soil Sciences and Basic Sciences at The University Center, The Republic of Cameroon; and Senior Professor at the University of Fort Hare, Republic of South Africa – the alma mater of the late Nelson Mandela, and where he began the struggle against apartheid. Professor Nair is best known, globally, for developing “The Nutrient Buffer Power Concept”, a revolutionary soil management technique that is changing the face of modern farming in the developing world. The recipient of several national and international awards for developing this concept and currently nominated for the 2020 Volvo Environment Prize, he has authored tenbooks, including “ISSUES IN NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AGRICULTURE”, which was launched by India’s great President, the late Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam in Raj Bhavan, Chennai. He has received six invitations to contribute invitational chapters to ADVANCES IN AGRONOMY, the magnum opus of agricultural science, a world record. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Research Foundation. Currently pursuing global agricultural research, he lives with his wife, Dr Pankajam Nair, a nematologist trained in Europe, in Calicut, Kerala State, India.

• Preface.- Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 The Pepper Plant—Its Botany and Chemistry.- Chapter 3 Pepper Agronomy.- Chapter 4 The Role of the Nutrient Buffer Power Concept in Pepper Nutrition.- Chapter 5 Establishing a Pepper Plantation.- Chapter 6 Pepper Pests and Their Control.- Chapter 7 The Processing of Black Pepper on Farm.- Chapter 8 An Account of Indonesian Pepper Processing.- Chapter 9 Industrial Processing of Black Pepper.- Chapter 10 The Future of the Global Pepper Economy.- Chapter 11 Pepper Economy in India.- Chapter 12 Pepper Pharmacopoeia.- Chapter 13 Consumer Products Out of Black Pepper.- Chapter 14 Value Addition in Pepper.- Chapter 15 Conclusions and a Peep Into Pepper’s Future.- PRECISE QUANTIFICATION OF PLANT NUTRIENT BIO AVAILABILITY FOR BLACK PEPPER AND CARDAMOM.- TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS IN SPICES RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT!!!.