Author : J. Benton Jones Jr.
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 10,99 MB
Release : 2007-08-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 1420007394
While tomatoes continue to be one of the most widely grown plants, the production and distribution of tomato fruits have been changing worldwide. Smaller, flavorful tomatoes are becoming more popular than beefsteak tomatoes, greenhouse-grown tomatoes have entered the marketplace, and home gardeners are using the Internet to obtain information for g
Author : Barry Estabrook
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 13,39 MB
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 1449408419
2012 IACP Award Winner in the Food Matters category Supermarket produce sections bulging with a year-round supply of perfectly round, bright red-orange tomatoes have become all but a national birthright. But in Tomatoland, which is based on his James Beard Award-winning article, "The Price of Tomatoes," investigative food journalist Barry Estabrook reveals the huge human and environmental cost of the $5 billion fresh tomato industry. Fields are sprayed with more than one hundred different herbicides and pesticides. Tomatoes are picked hard and green and artificially gassed until their skins acquire a marketable hue. Modern plant breeding has tripled yields, but has also produced fruits with dramatically reduced amounts of calcium, vitamin A, and vitamin C, and tomatoes that have fourteen times more sodium than the tomatoes our parents enjoyed. The relentless drive for low costs has fostered a thriving modern-day slave trade in the United States. How have we come to this point? Estabrook traces the supermarket tomato from its birthplace in the deserts of Peru to the impoverished town of Immokalee, Florida, a.k.a. the tomato capital of the United States. He visits the laboratories of seedsmen trying to develop varieties that can withstand the rigors of agribusiness and still taste like a garden tomato, and then moves on to commercial growers who operate on tens of thousands of acres, and eventually to a hillside field in Pennsylvania, where he meets an obsessed farmer who produces delectable tomatoes for the nation's top restaurants. Throughout Tomatoland, Estabrook presents a who's who cast of characters in the tomato industry: the avuncular octogenarian whose conglomerate grows one out of every eight tomatoes eaten in the United States; the ex-Marine who heads the group that dictates the size, color, and shape of every tomato shipped out of Florida; the U.S. attorney who has doggedly prosecuted human traffickers for the past decade; and the Guatemalan peasant who came north to earn money for his parents' medical bills and found himself enslaved for two years. Tomatoland reads like a suspenseful whodunit as well as an expose of today's agribusiness systems and the price we pay as a society when we take taste and thought out of our food purchases.
Author : James W. Craig
Publisher :
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 28,31 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Tomatoes
ISBN :
Author : Craig LeHoullier
Publisher : Storey Publishing, LLC
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 15,3 MB
Release : 2015-01-16
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 1612122094
Savor your best tomato harvest ever! Craig LeHoullier provides everything a tomato enthusiast needs to know about growing more than 200 varieties of tomatoes, from planting to cultivating and collecting seeds at the end of the season. He also offers a comprehensive guide to various pests and tomato diseases, explaining how best to avoid them. With beautiful photographs and intriguing tomato profiles throughout, Epic Tomatoes celebrates one of the most versatile and delicious crops in your garden.
Author : George Washington 1864?-1943 Carver
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,62 MB
Release : 2023-07-18
Category :
ISBN : 9781020521324
Written by the renowned botanist and inventor George Washington Carver, How to Grow the Tomato and 115 Ways to Prepare It for the Table is an early 20th-century classic. This book offers practical advice on growing and harvesting tomatoes, as well as a plethora of recipes for dishes such as tomato soup, tomato sauce, stuffed tomatoes, and more. Whether you're an experienced gardener or a novice cook, this book is sure to inspire your culinary creativity. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Aref A. Abdul-Baki
Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 45,96 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Mulching
ISBN :
Author : J. Atherton
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 16,59 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9400931379
The tomato is commercially important throughout the world both for the fresh fruit market and the processed food industries. It is grown in a wide range of climates in the field, under protection in plastic greenhouses and in heated glasshouses. Genetic, physiological and pathological investigations frequently adopt the tomato plant as a convenient subject. Hitherto, much of the information on tomatoes has been fragmented: tomatoes grown in the field and under protection have been considered separately and the more fundamental findings from research have often failed to reach those involved directly or indirectly in commercial crop production. Similarly, the research scientist is often unaware of the problems of commercial crop production and the possible relevance of his work to the crop. This book is an attempt to rectify that situation. By giving a thorough scientific review of all factors influencing tomato production systems, it is hoped that this book will prove useful to students, researchers and commercial producers alike. It gives the basis for the develop ment of improved cultivars, the formulation of strategies for managing pest, disease and disorder problems and the production of high yields of good quality fruit as well as suggesting important areas for scientific initiatives. The extensive bibliographies provide a comprehensive database for tomato researchers. Such a vast subject could not be covered with authority by anyone author.
Author : Various
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 47,53 MB
Release : 2021-06-28
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1528763653
This comprehensive guide to gardening for profit comprises six thorough and detailed sections by various experts on the subject. It is extensively illustrated with black and white drawings, forming a complete how to guide. Commercial Horticulture takes a comprehensive and informative look at the subject, and is a fascinating read for any gardener. Contents Include: Vegetable Production for the Markets; Commercial Fruit-growing; Commercial Glasshouse Work; Tomato and Cucumber Culture; Mushroom Growing; Commercial Bulb Growing. This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience.
Author : Annette Welsford and Lucia Grimmer
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,60 MB
Release :
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ISBN :
Author : NPCS Board of Consultants & Engineers
Publisher : NIIR PROJECT CONSULTANCY SERVICES
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 44,84 MB
Release : 2017-07-08
Category :
ISBN : 9381039682
Tomato is one of the most popular fruit in the world. The products of tomato like paste, juice, ketchup, etc. are widely used in kitchens all around the world. Tomatoes and tomato-based foods are considered healthy for the reason that they are low in calories, but possess a remarkable combination of antioxidant micronutrients. Tomato industry has been growing significantly over the past several decades. Changing life style and taste of consumers in different countries will motivate the growth of the tomato products market. The industries can retain maximum market share by differentiating their products in the market, by coming up with innovative products and by focusing on different packaged tomato products. India is one of the largest consumers of tomatoes, as well as the second largest tomato producing country in the world followed by China. Although raw tomato consumption is the mainstream means of consumption in today's India, the market for processed tomato is expected to expand in the near future considering the remarkable economic growth and dietary culture changes. Tomatoes are widely grown commodity with 136 mt production in the world. There is a big market for tomato products. The market scenario has revealed a positive indication for the specially packed tomato products in local as well as outside market. It is estimated that the total production of processed fruit & vegetable in India is about 15.0 lakh tonne. The major content of the book are varieties of tomato, select the best seeds and seedlings, growing preparation, canning of tomatoes, how to store & preserve tomatoes, basis for successful cultivation of tomato, crop husbandry, tomato pruning, dehydration/drying of tomatoes, canning of tomatoes, preserving by heating, tomato pulp, tomato paste, tomato ketchup, tomato juice, tomato powder, hazard analysis and critical control points, FPO and Agmark, products packaging, marketing. The purpose of this book is to present the elements of the technology of tomato preservation. The book explains raw material requirement, manufacturing process with flow diagrams of various tomato products with addresses of plant & machinery suppliers with their photographs. It deals with the products prepared from tomato commercially. It will be a standard reference book for professionals, entrepreneurs, food technologists, those studying and researching in this important area and others interested in the field of tomato products manufacturing. TAGS Agro Based Small Scale Industries Projects, Business plan for tomato paste production, Cost of tomato processing plant, Food Processing & Agro Based Profitable Projects, food processing business list, Food Processing Industry in India, Food Processing Projects, Free Project Profiles on Tomato processing, Functional Value-Added Fruit and Vegetable Processing, How to Start Food Processing Industry in India, how to start a food manufacturing business, How to Start a Food Production Business, How to Start a Tomato Production Business, How to Start Tomato Processing Industry in India, Investment opportunities in tomato processing, Techno-Economic feasibility study on Tomato processing, Most Profitable Food Processing Business Ideas, Most Profitable Tomato Processing Business Ideas, new small scale ideas in Tomato processing industry, Pre-Investment Feasibility Study on Tomato processing, Profitable Tomato Processing Business Opportunities, Profitable Value-Added Specialty Food Products - Profitable Plants, Setting up of Food Processing Units, Small Scale Food Processing Projects, Small scale tomato processing plant, Small Scale Tomato Processing Projects, Starting a Food or Beverage Processing Business, Starting a Tomato Processing Business, Tomato and Tomato-Based Products, tomato based products list, Tomato Based Small Scale Industries Projects, Tomato ketchup plant layout, Tomato ketchup processing plant, Tomato Paste Processing Plant, Tomato Processing & Tomato Based Profitable Projects, tomato processing and utilization, Tomato processing business plan, Tomato processing equipment, vegetables, fruit processing, Tomato processing industry in India, tomato processing industry pdf, Tomato processing line, Tomato processing plant cost India, Tomato Processing Projects, Tomato products manufacturing process, Tomato sauce making machine price in India, Tomato sauce plant cost, Tomato sauce project, Tomato Value Added Products, Value added products from tomato, Value Added Tomato Processing, Value addition to tomatoes, Value-Added Food Processing Technologies, Value-added food products processing, Technology book on tomato processing
