Plantation Crop Wastes: Valorization for Economic Sustainability

Plantation crop residues are a significant waste product of modern horticulture. These residues, derived from numerous plantation crops, such as cocoa, coffee, rubber, tea, areca nuts, palmyra palm, and coconut, are usually left to decompose, leading to environmental degradation, groundwater pollution, and health hazards. However, with the growing demand for sustainable agricultural practices, innovative approaches are necessary to utilize these residues. This book aims to comprehensively explore the potential of plantation crop waste valorization, showcasing innovative technologies and applications that transform waste materials into value-added commodities, biofuels, and platform chemicals for a sustainable economy.

Plantation Crop Wastes: Valorization for Economic Sustainability addresses various aspects of the plantation crop waste-to-wealth paradigm and will be a valuable resource for academics, researchers, policymakers, and industry professionals seeking sustainable solutions for the management of plantation crop waste.

Part 1: Introduction. - Ch 1: Plantation Crops: Residue Utilization for Industrial Biotechnology and Economic Sustainability. - Part 2: Edible crops. - Ch 2: Date Palm Fruit Processing Wastes and By-Products: Valorization

Using Bioprocess Technology. - Ch 3: Turning trash into treasure: Unlocking the Value of Palmyrah Palm Waste. - Ch 4: Palmyra palm fruit processing wastes and by-products: Valorization using bioprocess technology. - Ch 5: Avocado, jackfruit and apple: general aspects, waste production and biotechnological applications. - Ch 6: Biotechnological potentialities and valorization of mango peel and stone waste: Their potential applications. - Part 3: Beverage crops. - Ch 7: Potential and sustainable utilization of tea processing waste: a review. - Ch 8: Valorization of coffee bean processing wastes and grounds for effective recovery of value-added bio-based products. - Ch 9: Biotechnological approaches for cocoa bean processing waste valorization: a review. - Part 4: Masticatory and Nut crops. -

Ch 10: Traditional and functional uses of unmarketable betel leaf (
Piper betel
L.) pertaining to the food and other sectors. - Ch 11: Areca nut waste valorization into bioproducts, biomaterials and biofuels. - Ch 12: Cashew apple and nutshell: a potential bio-resource for the production of beverages, bio-sourced chemicals, materials, and fuels. - Part 5: Oil yielding crops. - Ch 13: Coconut husk and shell waste: a bioresource for the production of materials and bioenergy. - Ch 14: Management of Palm oil mill processing wastes and effluents: Biotechnological advances. - Ch 15: Valorization of olive oil industry solid wastes and effluents into biofuels and value-added bio-products. - Ch 16: Valorization of Olive Mill Wastewater: A review. - Part 6: Industrial crops. - Ch 17: Bamboo crop waste management: A review of methods, mechanism, and prospects. - Ch 18: Valorization of rubber wood waste and crumb rubber factory as a source of bioenergy and bioproducts. - Part 7: Life cycle analysis. - Ch 19: Life cycle analysis of plantation crop waste valorization processes: Economic assessment and sustainability. - Ch 20: Policy options, development of sustainability indicators, environmental impacts and management options of plantation crop residues.