Intensive cultivation of vegetables

Author: Wu Zhixing/Hou Xilin (editors)
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: With the improvement of people's living standards, vegetables have shifted from subsistence-oriented to a higher standard of living. People are no longer satisfied with large, old, and coarse vegetables for filling their bellies, but instead yearn for a greater variety of vegetables that are pollution-free, nutritious, health-promoting, and therapeutic, while also being aesthetically pleasing in color, aroma, taste, and appearance to satisfy their culinary desires. The current situation is that vegetable farmers aim to enhance the competitiveness of their produce to sell it more effectively, while consumers are willing to spend more money to elevate their living standards. To this end, from the perspective of intensive vegetable cultivation, the book recommends many new, special, high-quality, rare, wild, and innovative vegetable types and varieties introduced or developed domestically and internationally in recent years, such as micro-vegetables, ornamental vegetables, aromatic vegetables, medicinal and edible vegetables, named and special vegetables, imported vegetables, export-oriented vegetables, and wild vegetables. The promotion of these new vegetable varieties and technologies not only helps boost domestic consumption but, more importantly, creates conditions for vegetables to enter international markets and compete globally. The book also provides concise and practical cultivation techniques for the main vegetables discussed, to facilitate practical application.