Cash crops : genetic diversity, erosion, conservation and utilization
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Cash crops : genetic diversity, erosion, conservation and utilization
Springer, c2022
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Description
Cash crops are grown and sold for monetary gain and not necessarily for sustenance. They include coffee, tea, coconut, cotton, jute, groundnut, castor, linseed, cocoa, rubber, cassava, soybean, sweet potato, potato, wheat, corn and teff. While some of these crops have been improved for realizing yield potential, breeding of many of them is still in infancy. Crops that underwent rigorous breeding have eventually lost much of the diversity due to extensive cultivation with a few improved varieties and the diversity in less bred species is to be conserved. Over the past years, scholars and policy makers have become increasingly aware of the short and long-run impact of climatic factors on economic, food security, social and political outcomes . Genetic diversity, natural and induced, is much needed for the future generations to sustain food production with more climate resilient crops. In contrast, crop uniformity produced across the farm fields in the form of improved varieties is genetically vulnerable to biotic and abiotic stresses. Thus, it is essential and challenging to address the issue of compromising between maximizing crop yield under a given set of conditions and minimizing the risk of crop failure when conditions change. Cash crops are grown in an array of climatic conditions. Many of the world's poor still live in rural areas. Many are subsistence farmers, operating very small farms using very little agricultural inputs for achieving marketable outputs. Conserving the diversity of these crops and addressing all issues of crop culture through modern tools of biotechnology and genomics is a real challenge. We believe the focus of this book is to fill an unmet need of this and other grower communities by providing the necessary knowledge, albeit indirectly via the academics, to manage the risks of cash crops breeding through managing genetic diversity.
Table of Contents
GENETIC DIVERSITY, EROSION, CONSERVATION AND UTILIZATION - CASH CROPS
Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Cash crops: An introduction
Part I: Beverages
Chapter 2: Cocoa
Chapter 3: Coffee
Part II: Industrial crops
Chapter 4: Sugarcane
Chapter 5: Rubber
Chapter 6: Jute
Part III: Oil seeds
Chapter 7: Coconut
Chapter 8: Oil Palm
Chapter 9: Mustard
Part IV: Pulses
Chapter 10: Groundnut
Chapter 11: Lentil
Part V: Fruits and nuts
Chapter 12: Date palm
Chapter 13: Tomato
Chapter 14: Cashewnut
Part VI: Spices
Chapter 15: Cardamom
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