Newly compiled manual on the cultivation of specialty vegetables and melons

Author: Chen Chunliang, Lu Zhenqing (editors)
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Publish Date: 2001-03-01
Features: This manual is one of the series "Science and Technology for Rural Development," which provides detailed introductions to 68 specialty vegetables, including rare, trendy, and promising ones, from leafy vegetables, root vegetables, cabbage vegetables, solanaceous vegetables, gourd vegetables, tuber vegetables, legume vegetables, cabbage vegetables, aquatic vegetables, and perennial vegetables. It also covers the characteristics and features, nutritional value and uses, types and varieties, and cultivation techniques of watermelon and cantaloupe, including seedling raising and transplanting, field management, pest and disease control, and harvesting. The manual is up-to-date and highly practical, serving as a reference for、, rural management cadres, and production personnel of horticultural farms; it also holds significant value for researchers, educators, and administrators engaged in horticultural vegetable and gourd cultivation.