Preface Horticulture is one of the important sectors of agriculture. As per the demand of the present competitive era, it is very important that student should have proper study material for various competitive examinations such as ICAR’s JRF, SRF, ARS/NET and other state level examinations. The present book “Question Bank in Fruit Science” is written in very simple and understandable way and includes 3099 multiple choice of questions and fill in the blanks-200 and 25 sample questions, which will help all the aspirants preparing competitive examination. With the help of this book students of the horticulture sector can score more marks and get higher rank and it help them to reach to the desired goal. Presently when we start the preparation of competitive examinations, generally we don’t know what to read and what not to read. In the things competitive era it is not all about the mugging up of all the things. So, I thought it will be better if the students get the previous year’s question papers and some related matter. By reading this book students can get the idea about how to prepare for the competitive examinations. Besides this experience of the many student of the horticulture field are also included to make this book as a complete guide for competitive examinations. The present book entitled” Question Bank in Fruit Science” will fulfil a long felt need of Indian students. This volume has been designed to cover the courses offered by various Indian universities for Graduate and Post graduate level and also the ICAR syllabus of various competitive examinations. Hope this book would be useful for graduate and postgraduate students of Indian agriculture students. To minimise the errors in the book, I tried my level best, however, due to human errors or printing mistakes, there might be some errors. Therefore, readers are always requested to make their valuable suggestions for the further improvement of this book. For any opinion or suggestion please send the email. On: sambhajijarande55@gmail.com I wish to express my sincerely heartfelt gratitude to my parents, all the scientists and students of Discipline of Horticulture, Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari for their immense help, full co-operation and constant encouragement extended during the preparation of the manuscript for this book.