Vegetables

More than 40 kinds of vegetables are grown in India. Important vegetable crops grown in the country are potato, tomato, onion, chillies, carrot, raddish, turnip, beans, ladiesfinger, guard, letuce, brinjal, cabbage, cauliflower, spinach, okra, and peas.

India is next only to China in area and production of vegetables, and occupies the first position in the production of cauliflower, second in onion, and third in cabbage in the world. The area and production of major vegetables during 2004—05 is estimated at 6.30 million hectares with a production of 93 million tonnes and average productivity of 14.8 tonnes per hectare.