This publication contain a detailed description of research efforts and technologies related to different agricultural practices in vegetable crop production like tillage, sowing, planting or transplanting available in India and abroad. Critical operations like planting and transplanting need serious attention of researchers, thus, a comprehensive review on such aspects has been included in the book besides brief description on agronomical practices of vegetable crops.
The equipment related to plant protection and irrigation methods appropriate to vegetable cultivation. state–of–art technologies related to harvesting and seed extraction of vegetable crops, post –harvest management of vegetables including on farm processing for value addition, energy efficient low cost technologies like evaporative cool chamber, environment controlled cool chamber, protected cultivation for higher production and quality vegetable production, technologies related to vegetable seed processing, Indian standards on vegetable cultivation and processing machines has also been described.