Onions in Tropical Regions

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Natural Resources Institute, 1990 - Cooking - 232 pages
Onions in tropical regions: structure of the bulletin; a selective review of the litlerature: onions as a world crop; the onions grown in the tropics; the onions and the environment; agronomy of onions in the tropics; harvesting, drying, low-temperature storage; high-temperature storage, store design, treatments to prevent spouting in store, seed production. Information.

Contents

A selective review of the literature
20
THE GENETIC BASE AND THE CULTIVARS
31
THE ONION AND THE ENVIRONMENT
43
Measuring onion bulbing
49
ONION AGRONOMY IN THE TROPICS
53
Shallot growing in the tropics
59
ONION HARVESTING DRYING
65
Damage during harvesting and handling
71
The onion questionnaire findings
99
Conclusions
144
ONION PHYSIOLOGY AND THE TROPICAL
149
ONION PREHARVEST TREATMENT HARVESTING
156
CONCLUSION
164
Appendices
183
Names and addresses of questionnaire informants arranged
190
Code numbers names and countries of questionnaire
198

Storage conditions and skin retention
77
Bulk onion stores with temperature and humidity control
83
SEED PRODUCTION IN TROPICAL ONIONS
91
Index
208
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