Pinaki Acharyya – författare

Good management practices (GMP) for agricultural processes aim to ensure environmental, social, and economic sustainability, resulting in the production of safe and high-quality food and non-food agricultural products. In recent years, GMP has expanded to address concerns from various stakeholders about food security, safety, quality, and environmental sustainability in agriculture. Given the diverse challenges and constraints, such as population growth, increasing food, feed, and fodder needs, natural resource depletion, climate change, new pests, slow growth in farm income, and new global trade regulations, a paradigm shift is required in formulating and implementing agricultural research programs. The book Good management practices for fruit and vegetable crops provides an overview of the current state of GMP in horticulture and aims to disseminate proven technologies that can help address these challenges. It will focus on key issues and technologies related to GMP in fruit and vegetable crops.

The motivation to conduct further research in the field of plant-based diets and their potential to address public health issues has been driven by the growing interest of government, industry, and research institutes. Marker Assisted Selection has emerged as a promising approach in plant breeding, as it holds the potential to expedite the development of crop varieties with desirable characteristics. Significant progress has been made in mapping and tagging numerous genes that are important for horticultural purposes using morphological, biochemical, and molecular markers. This foundation serves as the basis for marker-assisted selection in crops. These methods offer great potential for improving the efficiency of conventional plant breeding by selecting on molecular markers linked to traits of interest rather than directly on the trait itself. Plant cell and callus culture systems have emerged as a promising area of bio-processing and production of useful metabolites with nutraceutical importance. These methods have been advanced through the use of bioreactor technology. Research and development are critical to the rapidly evolving field of functional foods and nutraceuticals. Producers are seeking new opportunities to increase farm income, processors are looking for value-added food products, health ingredients, and new uses for agricultural production, by-products, and new products for new and existing markets. Consumers worldwide are seeking increased assurance of the safety and quality of the food system and enhanced environmental performance of the agriculture and agri-food sector. Provinces and communities are seeking economic development opportunities in the field of horticulture. This book will be an invaluable resource for better understanding the utilization of crop diversity, underutilized crops, and their residues, as well as the improvement of post-harvest technology and the development of new functional foods with greater use of bioactive compounds and other quality traits.

Good management practices (GMP) address environmental, economic and social sustainability for on-farm processes and result in safe and quality food and nonfood agricultural products. In recent years, the concept of GMP has evolved to address the concerns of different stakeholders about food production and security, food safety and quality, and the environmental sustainability of agriculture. The diverse challenges and constraints as growing population, increasing food, feed and fodder needs, natural resource degradation, climate change, new parasites, slow growth in farm income and new global trade regulations demand a paradigm shift in formulating and implementing the agricultural research programmes. The present edition of the book related to Good management practices for fruit and vegetable crops is an endeavor to provide an insight to the ground realities and consequently proven technologies that needs to be popularized. The book will try to address the major issues of Good management practices in horticultural crops and disseminate the technologies developed.