Olivia Saunders presents her challenge boldly, and in no uncertain terms. In clear language even the most inexperienced layman can penetrate, Saunders presents a lucid, reasoned argument for a new way to see the worlds resources, and particularly the people who use them. Through the economics of abundance, Saunders seeks to reorient the way we as human beings relate to each other, our communities and our world. By denying the prevailing view of scarcity, which forces a paradigm of dehumanizing competition, and embracing what one might loosely term tomato economics, Saunders dares us to see the truth: there is enough, and more than enough. There is abundance.

Applying the proven success of modern process engineering economics to the food industry, Food Plant Economics considers the design and economic analysis of food preservation, food manufacturing, and food ingredients plants with regard to a number of representative food processes. Economic analysis of food plants requires the evaluation of quantita

This study of contemporary capitalism focuses on the tomato. Social, economic, historical and biological aspects of tomato production and consumption are explored in order to reveal major social and economic changes during the 20th century.

1.1 INTRODUCTION: India is a country of peasants and agricultural and it provides substance to more than two-third of the Indian population. Agricultural is the back bone of the Indian economy and no planning for economic growth can be fruitful without the development of agricultural sector. This sector assumes special importance in the context of the population explosion and it is required that agricultural planning should be so devised on such a way to make agricultural productivity keep peace with the growing population. Efficient agricultural management which can be certainly ensuring better and greater productivity may make valuable contribution to the balanced growth of Indian economy. Agriculture occupies a central position in the Indian economy. It contributes 29.4 percent of GDP employing 64 percent of the country’s work force. There are a number of sub-field in the agriculture and horticulture. Among those fields, horticulture has played a dominant role in India. Horticulturalists are cultivating a variety of fruits in their filed. Among the diverse fruits produced by growers, the cultivation of tomato is higher in terms of area as well as in output compared to other fruits. India occupies number one position in the tomato marketing in the world.

The world trade of plants and plant products is gradually increasing in both quantity and variety. Also, as more and more citizens are nowadays travelling to distant destinations, there is an increased risk of unintentionally importing harmful organisms and invasive species. Governments respond to increased phytosanitary risks by imposing trade-restricting measures. However, they are under increasing pressure of the private sector and the World Trade Organization to justify costly and trade-restricting phytosanitary policies. On the other side, current phytosanitary policies are required to account for impacts on the environment. This book presents a number of recent scientific developments regarding the economic analysis of impacts that harmful organisms have on agriculture and the environment, and of measures to control these organisms. It also contains a number of new approaches that integrate economic and epidemiological modelling and economic approaches for measuring these impacts.

This book discusses pertinent aspects of agricultural economics and rural development. It includes case studies that assess the impact of tomato cultivation on food security and poverty alleviation of rural dwellers and agricultural producers. Additionally, it examines farmers’ knowledge of organic livestock farming, a novel method of livestock production. The book also contains a review of factors affecting the efficiency of vegetable production and the basics of good agribusiness plans for successful agribusiness activities.

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.