Tropical and subtropical vegetables (2+1)

Bottle gourd

• India is an important supplier of fresh vegetables to South-East Asia and Gulf countries. Bottle gourd has great export potential. The fruits exported should be light-green to dark green colour having length of 30-100cm and should be straight. They should have good packing ability in carton boxes. The varieties Pusa Summer, Prolific Long, Pusa Hybrid 3 and Samrat have good export potential. Research is needed to survey other countries for their requirement and production of such marketable produce to the consumers according to their liking to meet their requirement.