Mango is an exotic fruit with more than 4500 varieties having different colors, aroma, taste, flavor and nutrition contents. Mango is God’s gift to India and is adored as national fruit. It has been cultivated from ancient times and propagated to various parts of the world in the last 500 years. Though India had 3000 varieties of mangoes, due to negligence and various other reasons, many local varieties have become extinct. They are replaced by grafted and hybrid varieties with better quality and regular higher yields. Though India’s production is highest in the world (55%), it is at the bottom in exporting. The modern cultivation techniques, tree and crop protection, harvesting skills, post-harvesting procedures, and export procedures are yet to reach the growers. Today, The Central and state governments, and their agencies are paying more attention to mango field to improve farmers’ and national earnings.
This book “A treatise on mango the king of fruits” is comprehensive information on mango from A-Z. It is fully colored A4 size, 1800 pages book containing 39 chapters arranged in 3 volumes for ease of handling. The author has taken 13 years to compose this book with his 67 years of experience in mango field as family orchard grower. Starting with history and cultural aspects, climatic and soil condition, soil preparation, cultivation, plant and crop protection, harvesting, post-harvesting procedure, pests, diseases-bacterial, fungal and nematodes, parasites and fungi, nutritional deficiencies, miscellaneous problems, mitigation and controls; mango storage and ripening, quality checking, classification, packaging, transportation, marketing, nomenclature and description as per the set scientific standard are covered in Volume 1. Mango varieties are covered in volume 2. Nutritional and medicinal aspects; culinary aspects and consumption; other uses of mango trees, mango markets, eminent people in mango field; nurseries, research centers and facility providers etc., are covered in volume 3 of this book. Mango growers, nursery persons, students, research scholars, mango lovers, housewives, home product industries are going to be benefited as this single book provides needed information. Hope, reading of this book will promote mango growing, more job creation, and improve financial resources of both farmer and the country. Apart from this, mango trees are the maximum oxygen generators, shade providers, and climate controllers and helps nature conservationists in promoting it. This is an ideal reference book worth possessing. Kindly read the book and enrich your knowledge.