University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore

A comprehensive coverage and consultation of subject matter on general production, agronomical, physiological, breeding, seed production, protection, post-harvest technological and processing, transportaton, storage and marketing aspects of vegetables from a huge volume of information scattered in different books and other reading materials for the preparation of students for various examinations is a tedious and time-consuming job. Therefore, to make the students acquinted about the essential fundametnals aspects of vegetable crops, the author felt essential to prepare a technical book for this purpose, which would prove quite helpful to them in gaining the vast information complied in the book. Since there is no oter book with such enormous infomation on vegetable crops in particular and for others in general, it would serve like aboon in the inventory of literature source for the purpose of preparation for various examinations of Junior Research Fellow, Senior Research Fellow, Agricultural Recuritment Services, national Eligibilit Test and Ph.D. students of Olericulture seeking admission to various universities and institutions in the field of vegetable Science. feel that this book is user-friendly to the students and others who have the concern to expand basic knowledge in the field of vegetable science.