Tropical and subtropical vegetables (2+1)

Growing pockets of some vegetable crops

Table 3.Growing pockets of some vegetable crops:

Okra	Nasik, ozar saikheda, Dindhori, Kolhar, Naraingaon and Sholapur in Maharashtra,
Chilli	Pen, alibaugh and chol inraigad district dindhori, and Niphad and itaatpuri Taluka in Nasik district of maharastra.
Watermelon	Panval near Mumbai and mlaharashtra state.
Bottle gourd and bitter gourd	Nasik and Pune district in Maharashtra
Gherkin	Nasik in Maharashtra  state
Capsicum	Nasik , Pune ans Satara district un Maharashtra.
Baby corn	Bangalore in Karnataka, Nasik and Pune in Maharashtra.
French bean and	Dindhori in Nasik District, Wai in Satara Distrct and Naraingaon in Pune,
Cluster bean	Dhule and Ahmednagar.
Onion (big)	Nasik Pune and Satara district in Maharashtra Periyar and Coimbatore district in Tamil Nadu, Bhudaun in Uttar Pradesh,and Patna, Biharsharif in Bihar, Bhavnagar and Rajkot in Gujrat
Onion (small)	Kolar and Bangalore in Karnataka and cuddapah in Andhra  pradesh
Onion (multiple)	Anna, Madurai, Salem and Coimbatore district of Tamilnadu.
Garlic	Indore and mandsaur in Madhya Pradesh, Ooty in Tamil Nadu, Jamnagar  and Rajkot in Gujarat and kullu in Himachal Pradesh.
Tomato	Nasik and Pune in maharashra and Bangalore in karnataka
Potato	Jallandher and Ludhiana in Punjab Kurudshetra and Karul in Haryana  Ooty in Thamil Nadu and Indore in Madyapradesh.

• competing countries: Thailand, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Zimbabwe, Guatemala, China, Argentina, Indonesia, Egypt, Turkey, Iran Cyprus, Australia, New Zealand and Holland re the other countries which export different vegetables to different countries details of some of the exporting counties and items being exported are given in table 4.

Name of the countries	Vegetables exported
Thailand	Brinjal, Baby corn, Chillies okra, multiple onion garlic and yellow onion.
Holland	Onion, Baby corn, Capsicum, Cole crops , Tomato cucumber lettuce, root crops and tomato
Spain	Onion and garlic.
Australia	Onion, beans, cote crop, cucumber and root crops.
Iran	Onion.
Turkey	Onion.
Egypt	Onion and garlic.
China	Onion and garlic and other European vegetables
Argentina	Yellow onion.
Indonesia	Multiplier onion and bigger cloyed garlic.
Kenya	Beans, peas and okra.
Guatemala	Asparagus.
Morocco	Gherkin.
Jordon	Assorted vegetables.

                                                                   Source: Pandey and Singh (2000).
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