Dragon Fruits

Dragon fruit is an important exotic tropical fruit belonging to the family Cactaceae. It is rich in essential nutrients such as vitamins, minerals, complex carbohydrates, dietary fibres and antioxidants as well as boosting immunity and economic potential for farmers for income generation as high value horticulture crop. The packages and practices for this exotic fruit crop cultivation practices and its process products will be helpful to guide the dragon fruit growers in India for propagation, training system, pruning system, important pests and disease management and process products preparation for sustainable production to meet the demand of consumers of this high value fruit crop. This book will also guide the new dragon fruit growers by providing knowledge for its agro-techniques which will be helpful for the area expansion for this fruit crop. Hence, in this book selection of agro-techniques for cultivation aspects, as well as processing technique of the dragon fruit are deal in details. This will serve as guiding agro-techniques for all the dragon fruit growers connected with this exotic fruit production of the country. Further, it will fulfill the needs in establishing improved culture technique for its cultivation and also will serve as a useful for the students and others who are interested in horticultural filed.