Back to > Major Fruits | Minor Fruits | Underutilized Fruits   Introduction  Name, Taxonomy, Botany  Nutritional Value Common Varieties Agronomy Pest & Disease Management Post-harvest & Processing Market and International Trade Research and Development   Nutritive components: Avocado is surprisingly a complete food, with fourteen minerals to stimulate growth, includingContinue Reading

Back to > Major Fruits | Minor Fruits | Underutilized Fruits   Introduction  Name, Taxonomy, Botany  Nutritional Value Common Varieties Agronomy Pest & Disease Management Post-harvest & Processing Market and International Trade Research and Development   Harvesting: The avocado is unique in the way it ripens. It matures on the treeContinue Reading

Back to > Major Fruits | Minor Fruits | Underutilized Fruits   Introduction  Name, Taxonomy, Botany  Nutritional Value Common Varieties Agronomy Pest & Disease Management Post-harvest & Processing Market and International Trade Research and Development   For more plant health information, including diagnostic resources, best-practice pest management advice and plant clinic dataContinue Reading

Back to > Major Fruits | Minor Fruits | Underutilized Fruits   Introduction  Name, Taxonomy, Botany  Nutritional Value Common Varieties Agronomy Pest & Disease Management Post-harvest & Processing Market and International Trade Research and Development   Agro-climatic suitability: Avocados do well in the mild-winter areas ofCalifornia,FloridaandHawaii, but thrive inMexicoall year. AvocadosContinue Reading

Back to > Major Fruits | Minor Fruits | Underutilized Fruits   Introduction  Name, Taxonomy, Botany  Nutritional Value Common Varieties Agronomy Pest & Disease Management Post-harvest & Processing Market and International Trade Research and Development   Distribution: There are three Horticultural Races of avocado namely, Mexican, Guatemalan and West Indian. WestContinue Reading

Back to > Major Fruits | Minor Fruits | Underutilized Fruits   Introduction  Name, Taxonomy, Botany  Nutritional Value Common Varieties Agronomy Pest & Disease Management Post-harvest & Processing Market and International Trade Research and Development   Names (Common Names): Avocado, avocatier, aguacate, adpukat, avokad, apukado, avokaa, awokado, bo’, ie dau, apokaContinue Reading

Back to > Major Fruits | Minor Fruits | Underutilized Fruits   Introduction  Name, Taxonomy, Botany  Nutritional Value Common Varieties Agronomy Pest & Disease Management Post-harvest & Processing Market and International Trade Research and Development   Introduction: Avocados were widely cultivated in tropicalAmericaas individual seedling trees before the Spanish conquest butContinue Reading

Back to > Major Fruits | Minor Fruits | Underutilized Fruits    Introduction  Name, Taxonomy, Botany  Nutritional Value  Common Varieties  Agronomy  Pest & Disease Management  Post-harvest & Processing  Market and International Trade  Research and Development   Domestic and Export Market Requirement   Banana quality standards Consumers demand high quality of theContinue Reading

Back to > Major Fruits | Minor Fruits | Underutilized Fruits    Introduction  Name, Taxonomy, Botany  Nutritional Value  Common Varieties  Agronomy  Pest & Disease Management  Post-harvest & Processing  Market and International Trade  Research and Development   Abstracts  1. Ding, Phebe and Ahmad, S.H. and Abd. Razak, Abd. R and M.T.M, Mohamad andContinue Reading

Back to > Major Fruits | Minor Fruits | Underutilized Fruits    Introduction  Name, Taxonomy, Botany  Nutritional Value  Common Varieties  Agronomy  Pest & Disease  Post-harvest & Processing  Market and International Trade  Research and Development   Harvesting: Stalks of bananas are usually formed in the late summer and then winter over.Continue Reading

Back to > Major Fruits | Minor Fruits | Underutilized Fruits    Introduction  Name, Taxonomy, Botany  Nutritional Value  Common Varieties  Agronomy  Pest & Disease  Post-harvest & Processing  Market and International Trade  Research and Development   Bananas have few troublesome pests or diseases outside the tropics. Root rot from cold wetContinue Reading

Back to > Major Fruits | Minor Fruits | Underutilized Fruits    Introduction  Name, Taxonomy, Botany  Nutritional Value  Common Varieties  Agronomy Pest & Disease Management  Post-harvest & Processing  Market and International Trade  Research and Development   Agro-climatic Suitability: Banana is a tropical plant which grows best under warm condition and meanContinue Reading