Good practices for planting and managing peach trees

Author: Zhu Gengrui
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Publish Date: 2003-03-01
Features: This book is divided into nine chapters, introducing basic knowledge such as the characteristics of peach production, production development trends, and business scales. It covers business decision-making and market research for peach production, including consumer demand for peaches, market information, market forecasting methods, modern business concepts, business strategies, and after-sales service. It emphasizes the discussion on peach cultivation, management, and seedling methods, orchard establishment techniques, pruning and shaping, soil, fertilizer, and water management, key technical measures to improve fruit quality, and critical issues for different ripening period varieties. The book also includes excellent peach varieties, major pest and disease control techniques for peaches, protected cultivation of peaches (including early cultivation, delayed cultivation, rain avoidance cultivation, and special types), cultivation of peaches, peach fruit storage and preservation, and sales management. Additionally, it covers annual cost management and economic analysis in peach orchards, including cost planning, cost control, cost accounting, major ways to reduce costs, and economic benefit analysis. Finally, it includes 11 appendices introducing pesticide usage methods, annual management schedules for peaches, standards for peach seedlings, standards for fresh peaches, quality standards for pollution-free peaches, and production technology standards for pollution-free peaches. This book is suitable for peach producers, business operators, and agricultural technical personnel for reference.