VEGETABLE CROPS:
- More than 40 vegetables belonging to Solanaceaeous, cucurbitaceous, leguminous, cruciferous, root crops and leafy vegetables are grown in Indian tropical, sub-tropical and temperate regions.
- Important vegetables grown in India are onion, tomato, potato, brinjal, peas, beans, okra, chilli, cabbage, cauliflower, bottle gourd, cucumber, watermelon, carrot, radish etc.
- India ranks second in vegetable production next to China w.r.t. area and production contributing 13.38 % to the total world production.
- India occupies first position in cauliflower, second in Onion, third in cabbage in the world.
- West Bengal, Orissa, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Maharashtra, Karnataka are the important states forhorticultural crop production