xviiAcknowledgements
We are highly grateful to Dr. K.V. Prabhu, joint director (research), Indian Agri-
cultural Research Institute, New Delhi, for successfully bringing about the publica-
tion of this book. His benevolent help, constant encouragement and great attitude
were highly inspiring and motivating. We personally thank Dr. Mansa Ram and Dr.
K. Singh, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, for encouraging us and
extending their help in writing this book.
We acknowledge the contributions and assistance of Dr. P.R. Kumar, Dr. C.B.
Singh, Rishi Raj and Dr. Md. Hashim, Indian Agricultural Research Institute,
Regional Station, Pusa, Bihar, in the writing of this book. We also offer our sincere
appreciation to Dr. P.K. Rai, Dr. Ranjeet Ray and Dr. S.K. Singh, Rajendra Central
Agricultural University, Pusa, Bihar, for their helpful suggestions during the writ-
ing of this book. Special thanks to Dr. Ganga Devi, Department of Agricultural
Economics, Anand Agricultural University, Anand, Gujarat, and Dr. Shashi Solanki,
head of the Department of Chemistry, Chhaju Ram Memorial (CRM) Jat College,
Hisar, Haryana, without whose encouragement, contributions and support this book
would not have been written.
We would like to express our gratitude to all those who saw us through this
process; to all those who provided support, talked things over, read, wrote, offered
comments, allowed us to quote their remarks and assisted in the editing, proofread-
ing and design. Thanks to CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, without whom this
book would never have found its way to the Web and to the many people who can-
not read this book. The real credit for this book ultimately goes to the many papaya
researchers from the last 65 years who disclosed the necessary information. We are
also very thankful to all the authors/publishers whose work was consulted and incor-
porated in the text.