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The term plantation crop refers to those crops which are cultivated on an wide scale in contiguous area, owned and managed by an individual or a company. The crops include tea, coffee, rubber, cocoa, coconut, arecanut, oil palm, palmyrah and cashew nut. These are high value commercial crops and better economic performance. It plays a vital role in improving Indian farmers economy, employment generation and rural poverty alleviation. Coconut, cashewnut, cocoa, arecanut, oil palm and palmyrah comes under Ministry of Agriculture and Farmer’s Welfare while tea, coffee and rubber are dealt by Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India. The individual chapters of this book provided a up to date current information and detailed account of the crop diseases history, economic importance, symptomatology, host parasite relationship, mode of spread, epidemiology, mode of survival and mode of spread, management practices of plantation crops. Also, this book covers most of the plantation crop disease development and progress. The book also mentioned the Integrated Plant Health Management approaches which involves all the disease management practices such as chemical, cultural, biological, breeding and biotechnological approaches. Colour diagrams are included in each crop wise in this book for easy identification of the disease.