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Postharvest Technology involves operations like cleaning, grading, drying, storage, packaging, transport, marketing and utilization. Postharvest losses occur mainly because of improper and inadequate pre and postharvest management practices. These losses can be significantly reduced, if the integrated approaches are adopted in pre and postharvest management of horticultural crops. The concept of integrated approaches encompasses the greater planning of entire demand driven production activity, appropriately linked with pre and postharvest practices. In this context, the present book contains thirty-four chapters, authored by experts in the field, which not only provide an overview of the sustainable horticultural practice and postharvest management, but also give an analytical account of the problems and prospects associated with it. This book will be immense value to students, teachers and researchers as well as growers engaged in the field of dryland fruit crops.

Contents: Forewords. Preface. 1. Strategic apporaches to upscale the postharvest management of dryland fruit crops/K.D. Kokate. 2. Present status and future prospects of dryland fruit crops/R.S. Patil. 3. Fruit production in India: issues and challanges/S.A. Ranpise. 4. Recent techniques in dryland fruit crops for quality production/V.S. Supe. 5. Food safety and export standards of important fruit crops/B.B. Dhakare, S.D. Patil and R.V. Patil. 6. Nutritional and therapeutic importance of dryland fruits/A.M. Musmade, V.P. Kad and J.K. Dhemre. 7. Postharvest physiology and biochemical changes in dryland fruit crops/U.D. Chavan. 8. Recent advanced techniques in macro and micronutrients use efficiency for quality of dryland fruit crops/A.G. Durgude and I.R. Bagwan. 9. Recent advances in pre-harvest factors to enhance the postharvest quality of Aonla, Ber and Jamun/V.R. Joshi. 10. Recent advances in pre-harvest factors to enhance postharvest quality of custard apple/S.D. Patil and S.A. Ranpise and B.B. Dhakare. 11. Recent advances in pre-harvest factors to enhance postharvest quality of fig/S.D. Patil and S.A. Ranpise and B.B. Dhakare. 12. Use of plant growth regulation in dryland fruit crops/S.S. Kulkarni. 13. Integrated pest management of arid zone fruit crops/A.R. Walunj. 14. Disease management in important dryland fruit crops/K.S. Raghuwanshi.