The International Horticultural Congress 2010 will take place 22-27 August 2010 in Lisbon, Portugal. The event features seminars, workshops, symposia, colloquia and other sessions. There are several events of great interest to the underutilized plant community, for example Symposium S12 on Genetic Resources, Seminar SM08 on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, Symposium S07 FAV-Health, Workshop WS10 on Minor and underutilized tropical and subtropical fruits for nutritional security in the XXI century… The revised abstract submission deadline is 31 January 2010.

Please check out http://www.ihc2010.org for more information and the abstract submission tool.

The International Horticultural Congress 2010 will take place 22-27 August 2010 in Lisbon, Portugal. The event features seminars, workshops, symposia, colloquia and other sessions. There are several events of great interest to the underutilized plant community, for example Symposium S12 on Genetic Resources, Seminar SM08 on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, Symposium S07 FAV-Health, Workshop WS10 on Minor and underutilized tropical and subtropical fruits for nutritional security in the XXI century… The revised abstract submission deadline is 31 January 2010.

Please check out http://www.ihc2010.org for more information and the abstract submission tool.

Authors: Dr. O. P. Pareek & Dr. Suneel Sharma
Publisher: Pointers Publishers, 807, Vyas Building , Chaura Rasta, Jaipur – 302 003, India.
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Publication date: 2009
ISBN: 978-81-7910-282-4
Includes Colour Plates
Price: INR. 5000.00/ $ 250.00

This publication has been brought out in two volumes. The first volume outlines ‘diversity and distribution’ of the underutilized fruits and nuts and provides collated information on their value in ‘food and nutrition security’, in ‘livelihood and income security’, and for ‘development of value added and commercially useful products’ and for ‘rehabilitation and conservation of the ecosystem’. The available information on distribution, uses, botany and culture of 56 subtropical and 39 temperate fruits has also been presented in this volume. Appendices on ‘botanical and other names of the fruits suitable for humid, semi-arid and arid regions of tropical, subtropical and temperate areas’, ‘families, genera and species’ and ‘food value’ of these fruits and their ‘use in agroforestry systems’ have been given.

The second volume provides the available information on distribution, uses, botany and culture of 157 tropical fruits that have potential to be promoted for systematic cultivation. The ‘epilogue’ given at the end of this volume outlines the suggestions on the required activities intended to be of help to develop participatory research and developmental work on the neglected and underutilized fruits.

The fruits of the subtropical and temperate groups (in first volume) and those of tropical group (in second volume) have been further divided into three sections, i.e. the fruits for humid, semi-arid and arid regions to enable selection of the right species for cultivation to suit a given environment. The fruits in each section have been arranged alphabetically according to their common names. Botanical and other names of the fruits and nuts have been given in the text. The book has been illustrated with line diagrams and coloured photographs of several of these fruits and nuts.

Besides serving as a good teaching material on different aspects of the underutilized fruits, the book should be valuable to all concerned with promoting these species in production systems and for utilizing their produce for processing and industrial uses.

In periurban Hyderabad, India, leafy vegetables are increasingly grown along the Musi River and sold in urban markets. This agricultural biodiversity can significantly help urban and periurban farmers become more resilient to the impacts of such changes. Read this article (pdf 5.5 MB) in the latest issue of Urban Agriculture Magazine.

The College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources / University of Hawai’i at Manoa provides a comprehensive online library of its publications. We specially would like to point our users to the sections

• Fruits and Nuts
• Home Garden Vegetable
• New Plants of Hawaii
  and
• Sustainable Agriculture