High-Value Plants: Novel Insights and Biotechnological Advances

High-value crops are non-staple plants that give much higher return per unit area than staple crops. Diversification and investing towards high-value crops can potentially increase farm incomes, making them more attractive to new and small-scale agricultural farmers. This new volume explores the biotechnological applications for the unique high-value crops in response to the impending high-value agriculture revolution. The book discusses traditional knowledge, nutritional value, phytochemical activity, value addition quality, and postharvest management of some select unique high-value crops, including black ginger, bastard oleaster, Swertia chirayita, Garcinia, Parkia timoriana (or tree bean), king chili, Chenopodium (or goosefoot), sea buckthorn, broom grass, lichens, and others.

High-Value Plants: Novel Insights and Biotechnological Advances provides important information for small-scale farmers and agricultural and horticultural professionals to consider diversifying into non-traditional, high-value, agricultural crops, an important area of potential income growth in rural areas.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1774914743
• ISBN13: 9781774914748
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Apple Academic Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"