Speciality and Minor Crops Handbook - 2nd Edition
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Book Description
A guide to niche marketing for produce growers and sellers! This is a useful guide for growers - whether commercial producers or backyard gardeners. This second edition of the Specialty and Minor Crops Handbook provides detailed information that will help you make intelligent decisions about growing the specialty crops that are right for you. This expanded edition includes 63 crop sheets and an updated bibliography with new information.
What are specialty and minor crops? Quite simply, they are fruits, vegetables and herbs that are either imported or grown on a limited scale in the United States. Specialty crops include unusual or exotic crops; many are European, Asian, or Latin American crops that have been introduced to the United States. Specialty crops also includes unusual varieties of common crops such as melons, tomatoes, peppers, lettuce and apples, miniature or baby vegetables. Specialty crops can also be thought of as any high-quality fruit, vegetable, or herb that is handled with exceptional care.
Twenty years ago, very few people in the United States had heard of daikon, and only a handful of us would have considered eating or producing this specialty crop. But today, our meat and potatoes diet has given way to a remarkably diverse array of exotic and specialty produce including daikon and others such as luffa and quinona. As immigrant groups have settled in the United States and imported and cultivated the products integral to their cultures, they have initiated a dramatic change in consumption and supply patterns across cultural and demographic lines. Many smaller-scale family farmers have discovered that the production and marketing of these specialty crops for a broader base of consumers has provided a new marketing niche and improved revenues.
Speciality and Minor Crops Handbook - 2nd Edition
Speciality and Minor Crops Handbook - 2nd Edition,Susan McCue,A N R Publications,1879906384,Agriculture - General,Gardening / Vegetables,Science/Mathematics,Technology & Industrial Arts,Technology / Agriculture & Animal Husbandry,Agriculture,Agriculture & Animal Husbandry,Crops,Farming,Growth (Plants),Selling
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