By Stanley J. Kays

ISBN-10: 9086861644

ISBN-13: 9789086861644

greens make up an immense element of the vitamin of people and are serious for reliable health and wellbeing. With the realm inhabitants estimated to arrive nine billion humans by means of 2050, they are going to play an more and more very important function in foodstuff availability. the aim of this publication is to facilitate accuracy in verbal exchange between contributors operating in agriculture and a greater comprehend of the level and variety of vegetable creation and usage world wide. expanding international fiscal interdependence and alternate in agricultural items makes specified conversation between participants using assorted languages crucial. there's presently a variety of greens shipped all over the world as seasonal, monetary and different forces are transferring markets from completely neighborhood towards worldwide. The textual content offers updated medical names, synonyms, and customary names for the commercially cultivated vegetable vegetation grown around the globe (404 crops), as well as details at the plant elements applied and their approach to education. universal names from 370 languages are awarded besides details on all of the languages.
The textual content represents an important reference resource with the data provided in a concise and without difficulty obtainable structure. It permits indentifying a crop from the typical identify in a various cross-section of languages and is accordingly of use to school and govt researchers, libraries around the globe, agricultural organisations, agricultural scientists, embassies, overseas tourists, vegetable growers, shippers, packers, produce purchasers, supermarket managers, connoisseur eating places, cooks, and gardeners.

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