Power Publisher’s New Release Know Your Fruits And Vegetables: Cucurbits by Gurcharan singh

Oct. 21, 2013 - PRLog -- With a galore of knowledge and 40 years of honored experience attained and conquered, crediting to seamless efforts and dedication, the author of this book shares his vast arrays of knowledge related to the fields of economic botany, ecology, taxonomy, environment to different educational institutions. Inclination towards holding the ‘camera’ and plants being his ‘lens capturing interest’ has always been his innermost passion which started off his journey as a photographer that took him places like California and different pockets of India. Currently his efforts are engrossed in the creation of online database which is linked to digital herbarium and Himalayan Plants.

This book introduces its readers to kingdom of nature which defines its purest essence in the form fresh greens, vegetables and fruits. This first part in the series on Fruits and vegetables focuses on the vital plant group called Cucurbits" which has food crops like gourds, melons, pumpkins, cucumbers, squashes and many more. These plants and various other crops bearing similar importance have been highlighted along with specific cultivators. Scientific background history along with their original names combined with their meaning, significance, food value and many such aspects are stated in this book. Future parts will focus other groups of plants contributing fruits and vegetables.

Very few of us are aware of the vitality behind certain food crops and at the same time majority of us bear little knowledge about them, which is not enough to understand its essentiality. Hence detailed description which includes their nature and characteristics and also how well it is culturally accepted and molded in the society around us. Different names of plants are featured in this book which is translated in different languages, thus extending more areas of knowledge.

As ‘To see is to Believe’, “Know Your Fruits and Vegetables…” does not leave its readers only with theoretical facts and information alone. Colored and crystal clear photographs of fruits and different parts of a plant at various phases, with a counting of an approximate of 265 photographs are showcased to the readers to strengthen their received knowledge, thus benefitting them in instant identification at the markets.

This book can be of utmost use and help to those genres of readers bearing the background of farmers, botanists, chefs, agricultural scientists and even housewives as even they are equally inclined towards nature’s delights of veggies and crunchy fruits.

Book :  Know Your Fruits and Vegetables: Cucurbits

Author  :  Dr. Gurcharan Singh

ISBN  :  978-93-83271-65-8

Price :  Rs. 350.00

Publishing Date: October 2013

Publisher: Power Publishers

Language:  English