agronomy agricultural physics agricultural meteorology soil science

herbarium of M&A plants; quality characters in medicinal and aromatic plants; methods
of analysis of some essential oils and other chemicals of importance in M&A
plants.
Suggested Readings
Chadha, K.L. and Gupta, R. 1995. Advances in Horticulture Vol.11. Medicinal and
Aromatic Plants, Malhotra Pub., New Delhi.
Farooqi, A. A. and Sreeramu, B.S. 2000. Cultivation of Medicinal & Aromatic Plants,
University Press, Hyderabad (in Press).
Handa, S.S. 1984. Cultivation and Utilization of Aromatic Plants, RRL, CSIR, Jammu.
Handa, S.S. 1984. Cultivation and Utilization of Medicinal Plants, RRL, CSIR, Jammu.
Hussain, A. 1993. Medicinal Plants and their Cultivation, CIMAP, Lucknow.
Hussain, A. 1994. Essential Oil Plants and their cultivation, CIMAP, Lucknow
Kumar, N., Md.Abdul Khader, J.B.M. Rangaswami and Irulappan. 1997. Introduction
to Spices, Plantation Crops, Medicinal and Aromatic Plants. Oxford &
IBH Pub., New Delhi.
9. Agronomy of vegetable crops (3+0)
Origin, history, distribution, adaptation, classification, varietal improvement, morphology,
production technology, quality components and post harvest handling of
important vegetable crops including solanaceous crops: tomato, brinjal, chillies, bell
pepper; cole crops; cauliflower, cabbage, knol-khol; root crops: radish, turnip, carrot,
beet, colocasia, yam, tapioca; bulb crops: onion, garlic; legumes: Beans: peas,
frenchbean, cowpea, cluster bean; cucurbits: cucumber, bottle gourd, bitter gourd,
sponge gourd, ridge gourd, tinda, okra, salad crops: lettuce, celery; leafy vegetables:
spinach, fenugreek, amaranth etc.
Suggested Readings
Barooah. S. 1993. Vegetable Growing in India. Kalyani Publishers, N. Delhi.
Bose, T.K., M.G. Som and J. Kabir (Editor) 1986. Vegetable Crops. Naya Prakash,
Calcutta, p. 206.
Choudhury, B. 1967. Vegetables. National Book Trust of India, New Delhi.