Logo

Synopsis Commercial crops are crops grown solely for sale rather than for the farmers' own use, for example, oilseed, tea, coffee, cotton, or sugarcane. Many developing world countries grow commercial crops to meet their debt repayments rather than grow food for their own people. India is noted for several plantation cash crops, of which the most important are tea, rubber, oilseed, coconut, and sugarcane.

The present book provides latest technological advances in the production of some of the major commercial crops of India. It is organised into eleven chapters with an introductory chapter and one chapter each for different commercial crops such as oilseed, sugarcane, fiber crops, tea, coffee, black pepper, cashew, coconut, rubber and tobacco. This book will be useful to all who associated with agriculture--farmers, estate managers, extension workers, technologists, policy makers, researchers and students.