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Front Cover -- SCIENTIFIC PERSPECTIVES OF TEA PLANT HORTICULTURE AND PRODUCTIVITY -- SCIENTIFIC PERSPECTIVES OF TEA PLANT HORTICULTURE AND PRODUCTIVITY -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- One -- Botany origin and spread of tea cultivars -- 1.1 Characteristics of the species (a list of Assam, Cambod, and Chinary tea bushes TV3, TV 7, TV 9, AV2, and P126) -- 1.2 Germ plasm preservation of tea -- 1.3 Statistics -- 1.4 Excerpts of J. Thomas statistics, Kolkatta 2019 report, and UPASI Coonoor, planters Chronicle, August 2020 -- 1.5 Impact of pandemic on Indian tea -- TWO -- Method of cultivation: propagation and multiplication of tea -- 2.1 Propagation methods -- 2.2 Raising plants from seeds -- 2.3 Grafting -- 2.4 Maintenance of Seed Orchards (Biclonal seed baris) -- 2.5 Organic cultivation/natural farming of tea seed Orchards: Guidelines -- THREE -- Management of young tea plantation in field -- 3.1 Tea plant requirements -- 3.2 Plant/cultivar -- 3.3 Water requirements -- 3.4 Land: terrain and climate on tea growing and productivity -- 3.5 Young tea management -- 3.6 Tipping and plucking -- 3.7 Frame formation prune -- 3.8 Schedule of operations for bringing up young tea -- 3.9 Postplanting care -- 3.10 Mature tea plantation management -- FOUR -- Mature tea (soil, water and shade) management -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Soil -- 4.3 Water management -- 4.4 Shade trees in tea plantations -- 4.5 Role and benefits of these green vegetation -- 4.6 Water conservation and management -- 4.7 Importance of maintenance foliage: intricacies on production and cost-effective management -- 4.7.1 North India -- 4.8 Shade management in tea plantations -- 4.9 Stress management -- 4.10 Biotic stresses -- FIVE -- Pruning systems and crop productivity -- 5.1 Normal pruning, rejuvenation pruning -- 5.1.1 Concepts -- 5.1.2 Normal pruning |
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5.1.3 Other knifing processes -- 5.1.4 Rejuvenation pruning -- 5.1.5 Criteria for rejuvenation -- 5.1.6 Steps/salient points on rejuvenation -- 5.2 Bush architecture: pruning, tipping, and harvesting -- SIX -- Physiology of the tea plant -- 6.1 Cultivar with varying harvest index -- 6.1.1 Cultivar and rootstock -- 6.2 Carbon metabolism: photosynthesis and assimilation -- 6.3 Source-sink relationship -- 6.3.1 Relationship between source-sink and hormones -- 6.4 Apical dominance -- 6.4.1 Overcoming apical dominance -- 6.5 Flushing behavior and hormone relationship -- 6.5.1 Endogenous hormone -- 6.5.2 Maintenance foliage and hormone -- 6.6 Winter-bud-dormancy-hormone -- 6.6.1 Factors responsible for flushing behavior -- 6.7 Starch build up in relation to flushing behavior and in-built mechanism in the canopy for sustenance -- 6.8 Wind, hail, and flood in relation to physiology -- 6.9 Stress management in plantations -- 6.10 Secondary metabolites -- 6.11 Remedial/restoration/palliative measures contemplated as scientific, financial, and sociological -- Seven -- Mineral nutrition in tea -- 7.1 Essential nutrients -- 7.2 Macronutrients -- 7.3 Secondary nutrients -- 7.4 Micronutrients -- 7.5 Some of the salient points on the nutrition of tea -- 7.6 Key symptoms of a few important micronutrients -- 7.7 Nutrient management -- 7.8 Salient points on nutrients management in tea plantations -- EIGHT -- Management of tea plantations: plant protection including weed control -- 8.1 Principal causes for pests and diseases -- 8.2 The principal pests and diseases of north and south India -- 8.3 Integrative measures suggested for the important pest and diseases -- 8.3.1 Integrated nutrients management (INM) and Integrated pest management (IPM) (GAP) modules developed for tea cultivation in n ... -- 8.3.1.1 Soil biobooster: plant growth promoting rhizosphere microbes (PGPR) |
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8.3.2 Organic cultivation -- 8.3.2.1 Salient points on transformation into organic cultivation of tea with value addition are narrated for information and imple ... -- 8.3.2.1.1 Preplanting -- 8.3.2.1.2 Planting and postplanting -- 8.3.2.1.3 Mature tea-new/old plantations: organic tea cultivation/package of practices, salient points -- NINE -- Tea processing and quality improvement -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Type of teas -- 9.3 Cell constituents -- 9.4 Black tea processing -- 9.5 Innovative processing/manufacture -- 9.6 Diversification value addition and marketing -- TEN -- Pollution of water, air, and toxic chemical elements -- ELEVEN -- Current problems and remedial measures required in tea plantations -- 11.1 Present situations -- 11.2 Major problems faced by tea plantations -- Twelve -- Priority areas of research for the preeminent position of Indian tea plantations -- 12.1 Importance of the soil constituents, strengthening, and handling for sustainable productivity and cost-effective management -- 12.1.1 Principal constituents of soil biosphere -- 12.2 Tail end crop and stress management practices for Assam tea: prophylactic and ameliorative measures -- 12.2.1 Stress amelioration measures for the winter months November -- March. a. Soil, b. plants, c. inputs & -- d. action -- 12.2.2 Details of practices: soil nutrition, aeration, biosphere -- 12.3 Packages for improving crop during quality seasons second/autumn flushes regions: Assam, Darjeeling, Nuwareliya, and the wo ... -- 12.4 Present situations/conditions of tea plantations, restoration measures, suggested with time frame -- 12.4.1 Restoration measures envisaged during 2020-22, North Indian tea -- 12.4.2 Concluding remarks and suggestions/road map for the well-being of the tea industry of India |
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12.4.3 Productivity and quality of North Indian tea-quick regeneration package and time frame envisaged, 2020-22 -- 12.4.3.1 Calendar of operations (North India) -- 12.4.3.2 Impacts, intricacies, correlation, coordination of soil/plant biospheres, and biodiversity on dynamic physiological metabol ... -- 12.5 Concluding remarks and suggestions/road map for the well-being of the tea industry of India -- THIRTEEN -- Case studies, field observations, and troubleshooting -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.1.1 Usage of bioproducts in tea plantations for sustainable economic productivity -- 13.1.2 Suggested ways and means -- 13.1.3 Practical suggestions for implementation -- 13.1.4 Specific recommendations for immediate decision -- 13.2 Current problems and probable solutions of tea plantations of North East India -- 13.2.1 Introduction -- 13.2.2 Current problems of serious magnitude and probable solutions -- 13.2.3 The key factors which deserve immediate action to stem the rot are the following -- 13.2.3.1 Optimize the soil reaction through application of appropriate soil amendments -- 13.2.3.2 Consolidation of shade and tea, filling up the vacancies caused by different factors duly correcting the predisposing factors -- 13.2.3.3 Buildup of carbon content of the soil encouraging the population of the beneficial soil microbes -- 13.2.3.4 Establishment of wind barriers, fuel forestry in the peripheries and marginal lands to augment the fuel requirement and bui ... -- 13.2.3.5 Strict adoption of soil conservation within the gardens and afforestation, making use of the surplus, marginal land availab ... -- 13.2.4 Field management practices-probable solutions are enlisted below -- 13.2.4.1 Young tea -- 13.2.4.2 Mature tea -- 13.2.4.3 Manuring and harvest of crop -- 13.2.4.4 Plant protection -- 13.2.4.5 Diversification, value addition in manufacture |
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13.2.5 Thrust areas research for the future of the industry -- References -- 13.3 Drought amelioration during winter: Mackaibari TG, Kurseong, Darjeeling district -- 13.4 Visit report of Boisahabi TE, Jorhat, Assam, February 20 and 21, 2019 -- 13.4.1 Field-wise observations, comments, and suggestions: 1 Boisahabi division -- 13.5 Technical discussion with field staff and executives-Halmari, Mokalbari dated Dec. 12th and 15th respectively -- 13.5.1 Soil health and productivity -- 13.5.2 Impacts of chemical inputs: GAP for tea in Assam -- 13.5.3 Good agricultural practices for cultivation of tea in Assam -- List of plants (inclusive) for diversification∗∗The eleven appendices in this chapter carry the salient points of technical ... -- 13.6 Field proving of basic package of practices for sustainable productivity in tea plantations- HML-A -- 13.6.1 Introduction -- 13.6.2 Anticipated benefits at end of the project -- 13.7 A note on glyphosate (C3H8NO5P) on toxicity in plantations and remedial measures -- 13.7.1 Remedial/restoration measures suggested -- 13.8 Research work done and contributions made as head plant physiology, Upasi Tri, during 1989-96 -- 13.8.1 Highlights of research achievements and scientific breakthroughs during the tenure 1989-96 -- 13.8.1.1 Physicochemical studies on nutrition of tea, project sponsored by the tea board of India: principal investigator: Dr. L. Ma ... -- 13.8.1.2 Use of enzymes in tea manufacture (NTRF -tea board project: principal investigator: Dr. S. Marimuthu. Research associate: D ... -- 13.8.2 The results and findings of the investigation are narrated below -- 13.8.2.1 DBT project on micropropagation of tea. principal investigator: Dr. L. Manivel, team: research fellows K.S. Murali, & -- V. Pa ... -- 13.8.3 Salient points of the research findings are narrated below |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Tea.
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Horticultural products.
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Horticultural products
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Tea
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Electronic book
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9780128236482 |
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0128236485 |
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