Amit Baran Sharangi, Majjiga Sreenivas

• Preface. Introduction. Underexploited Spice Crops: Introduction, Significance and Uses. Underexploited Spice Crops: Scenario and Present Status. Underexploited Spice Crops: Agro Techniques. Recent Approaches on Improved Production Technologies of Underexploited Spices around the World. Underexploited Spice Crops: Future Thrust Areas and Research Directions.

"This book deals with botanical, cultural, and technological aspects of 24 underutilized or poorly noticed, nondescript spice crops that could be a boon to spice-related research and application. This is more so since we have to combat and mitigate the brunt of climate changes. The inquisitive scholastic minds from across the disciplines along with faculties and professionals will be well drenched by this pool of knowledge and information and mettle and innovation of this previously neglected area of research and intervention."—From the Foreword by M. S. SwaminathanPresident, International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources; Former Director General, Indian Council of Agricultural Research; Former Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture; Former Director General, International Rice Research Institute