High-Value Plants

<p>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 <em>Swertia chirayita</em> <em>Garcinia</em> <em>Parkia timoriana</em> (or tree bean) king chili <em>Chenopodium </em>(or goosefoot) sea buckthorn broom grass lichens and others.</p><p>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.</p>