*Debabrata Bhattacharyya, Research Scholar, Dept. of Library & Inf. Science, University of Kalyani, Kalyani, Nadia
**Adjunct Professor, Deptt. of Library & Information Science, University of Kalyani, Kalyani, Nadia
***Assistant Professor, Deptt. of Library & Information Science, University of Kalyani, Kalyani, Nadia
Online published on 12 July, 2019.
Our motherland is very rich in variety of soil and agro-climatic zones. This richness is reflected through the diversity in crop production in India. Cultivation of horticultural crops mainly, fruits, vegetables and flowers start dominating over the food crop cultivation for the last 10–15 years. Effective information support becomes utmost important in these fields to enhance the production rate. ‘Pomology’ is a branch of ‘Horticulture’ whose domain is ‘Fruit cultivation’. In this article, the information sources in the field of ‘Pomology’ have been identified. One of the major abstracting sources i.e. CAB Abstracts in the field of ‘Pomology’ have been scanned from the year 1992 to 2016. Year wise publication of important sources of information in the subject under study has been analyzed and results have been interpreted. The trends of research in the specific subject field have also been traced.
Pomology, CAB, Horticulture, NHM, Information sources, ICAR
