Special Issue "Economics and Management of Fruit and Vegetable Production"

A special issue of Horticulturae (ISSN 2311-7524). This special issue belongs to the section "Horticultural Economics, Policy, Business Management and Marketing".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 February 2022.

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Zhengfei Guan
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Guest Editor
Food and Resource Economics Department & Gulf Coast Research and Education Center, University of Florida, Wimauma, FL, USA
Interests: production economics; labor economics; trade
Dr. Johan Desaeger
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Guest Editor
Gulf Coast Research and Education Center, University of Florida, Wimauma, FL, USA
Interests: applied biological sciences; nematode management

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Fruits and vegetables play an increasingly important role in human diet and health. With growing consumer demand, fruit and vegetable production and trade have been increasing worldwide. However, fruit and vegetable production faces various challenges involving issues in multiple dimensions in economics and science, including intensive labor use, product perishability, volatile market, intensive pesticide and fertilizer use and environmental and human health concerns. The editors of Horticulturae, in collaboration with the Special Issue guest editors Zhengfei Guan and Johan Desaeger, welcome submissions of both review and original research articles.

Horticulturae is a highly ranked peer-reviewed journal in the field of horticulture. It had an impact factor (IF) of 2.331 in 2020 and is ranked in the top quartile (Q1) in the field. This Special Issue covers both economics and crop management topics:

1)   Economic topics include, but are not limited to, production economics, risk management, technology adoption, price analysis, marketing, trade, food safety, farm labor, supply chain, and environmental and sustainability studies.

2)   Crop management topics include, but are not limited to, sustainable practices, organic production, pest and disease management, pesticide use, fertilization, irrigation and water use, fumigation and soil management, post-harvest management, and breeding.  

Authors should state in their cover letter that they are submitting their research for the “Economics and Management of Fruit and Vegetable Production” Special Issue. For general submission guidelines, please refer to the webpage: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/horticulturae/instructions

Dr. Zhengfei Guan
Dr. Johan Desaeger
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Horticulturae is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • fruit and vegetables
  • crop management
  • pest and disease management
  • best management practices
  • sustainability
  • food safety
  • supply chain
  • agribusiness
  • economics

Published Papers

This special issue is now open for submission.
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