Medicinal and Aromatic Crops: Harvesting, Drying, and Processing

ISBN-13: 9781560229759 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 340 str.

Serdar Oztelom

Opis

Make sure your crops are market-ready with the aid of harvest and post-harvest mechanization

Medicinal and Aromatic Crops presents harvest and post-harvest mechanization methods for the profitable production of market-ready medicinal crops. This practical handbook includes photos, detailed figures, and schematic drawings of machines that will help bring existing design ideas to life and inspire new ones for use in harvesting and primary processing. The book also includes general information on medicinal and aromatic plants, current production trends, and "how-to" instructions for improving the production process.

Even though the use of mechanization contributes not only to a marked increase in production, but also enables uniform quality and a decrease in drudgery for everyone involved, there's a distinct lack of material available of the subject. Medicinal and Aromatic Crops fills in the gap, providing a thorough, comprehensive look at every aspect of the mechanism of growing, harvesting, and processing, including production steps and procedures, safety and quality, plant drying, the use of renewable energy sources, dry processing, extraction, industrial usage, financial analysis, and software usage.

Medicinal and Aromatic Crops examines:

• environmental concerns
  
• manual and semi-mechanized harvesting
  
• transport
  
• the use of solar energy and solid biomass energy
  
• pre- and post-drying processes
  
• plant parts removal
  
• cutting, crushing, and milling
  
• post-drying separation and classification
  
• water and steam distillation
  
• and much more

Medicinal and Aromatic Crops is an invaluable guide to harvest and post-harvest mechanization for anyone involved in plant production and for agriculture educators and students.

Spis treści

About the Editors Contributors Preface Chapter 1. Introduction (Serdar Öztekin and Milan Martinov) Characteristics of Medicinal and Aromatic Plant Production Mechanization of MAP Production Chapter 2. Harvesting (Milan Martinov and Miodrag Konstantinovic) Introduction Manual and Semimechanized Harvesting Mechanized Harvesting Transport Chapter 3. Drying (Milan Martinov, Serdar Öztekin, and Joachim Müller) Introduction Hot Air Drying Parameters Hot Air Dryers Implementation of Renewable Energy Sources Chapter 4. Mechanical Processing (Milan Martinov and Miodrag Konstantinovic) Introduction Predrying Processes Postdrying Processes Chapter 5. Extraction (Yurtsever Soysal and Serdar Öztekin) Introduction Conventional Extraction Techniques New Extraction Techniques Chapter 6. Industrial Utilization (Yurtsever Soysal and Serdar Öztekin) Introduction Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Purposes Food and Food Ingredients Herbal Tea Cosmetics, Perfumery, and Aromatherapy Pest and Disease Control Nonconventional Uses Chapter 7. Decision Making (Sait M. Say) Introduction Decision-Making Procedures Factors for New Enterprise Decision Financial Analysis Software for Decision Making Appendix. User-Friendly Software for Decision Making: FANE v. 1.0 Start Screen New Project Screen (Data Entry Screen) General Screen Investment Inputs Screen Seasonal Inputs Screen Revenue/s Screen Decision Parameters Screen Results Screen Index Reference Notes Included

O autorze

Serdar Oztekin, Milan Martinov