Indian Spices

Dr. Amit Sharangi is a Professor in the Faculty of Horticulture at Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya (Agricultural University) in Mohanpur, India with more than 20 years of experience in teaching, research and extension.

• Chapter1: Spices in India and beyond: The origin, history, tradition and culture.- Chapter2: Legacy of Indian Spices –Its production and processing.- Chapter3: Why spices are so unique?.- Chapter4: The promising spices of North East India: India'sflavourful contribution to the world.- Chapter5: Wonders of Spices in Sri Lanka.- Chapter6: Production Technology of some Major and Minor Spice crops.- Chapter7: Organic Spices.- Chapter8: Plant health management in major spice crops.- Chapter9: Post harvesttechnologyand value addition of spices.- Chapter10: Spices :Secondary metabolites and Medicinal properties.- Chapter11: Recent advances on Molecular Breeding for Spice crop Improvement.- Chapter12: Marketing and Supply Chain Management of spice crops.- Chapter13: Export of onion, garlic and chilli: three essential spices in daily kitchen.- Chapter14: Climate change impact in spice crops and mitigation strategies.- Chapter15: Plant Tissue Culture as potential Option in Developing ClimateResilient Spices.- Chapter16: Exploration and extrapolation of extension strategy for promotion of spice production and processing in India.- Chapter17: Visioning Future: The Directions and Strategies.