Medicinal and Aromatic Crops

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 tha

Serdar Öztekin, PhD, has been Professor of Agricultural Engineering at Cukurova University in Adana, Turkey since 1990. His research interests are in the areas of post-harvest processing and the storage of agricultural crops. Dr. Öztekin has published five books on agricultural mechanization, has designed and built five machines for different crop processing stages, and was involved in the foundation of the Association of Agricultural Engineering in Southeastern Europe. Milan Martinov, PhD, is Professor of Agricultural Engineering at the University of Novi Sad in Serbia. His research interests include the development of procedures and machines for special crops, the implementation of renewable energies, and the development of rural areas. Dr. Martinov is Editor-in-Chief of the regional journal, Agri-cultural Engineering-Reports for Southeastern Europe, Associate Editor of "CIGR," the e-journal for the World Organization of Agri-cultural Engineering and is an editorial board member for several other agricultural engineering journals.

Preface Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Harvesting Chapter 3. Drying Chapter 4. Mechanical Processing Chapter 5. Extraction Chapter 6. Industrial Utilization Chapter 7. Decision Making