This chapter focuses on pomegranate production and growing regions in Iran, India, China, Spain, Turkey, Afghanistan, Egypt, USA, Azerbaijan, Tunisia, Morocco, Italy, Greece, Israel, Portugal, Albania, Southern Hemisphere, Peru, South Africa, Chile and Australia.

Olives were first cultivated in the Eastern Mediterranean region and expanded westwards during the next millennium. Olive cultivation spread from Crete to Syria, Palestine and Israel, to Cyprus, southern Turkey and Egypt. With the expansion of the Greek colonies, olive culture reached southern...

This chapter reviews the origin of avocado including their ecological races; ecological adaptations; early distributions; subsequent distributions (South Africa, Israel, Chile, Australia, USA); world production and marketing; fruit composition and uses; lipid content; nutritive value, vitamins,...

This chapter aims to pinpoint some important information sources, to summarize the types of SD onion cultivars grown in the tropics and to indicate recent country reports, grouped by regions. SD onions from the USA and from Israel are described briefly, since they are some of the most productive...