Tropical and subtropical vegetables (2+1)

Marketing

• In cucumber crook neck shaped fruits produced especially at the fag end of the harvest would have less marketable value. These fruits are produced because of imperfect pollination and fertilization and also due to fly attack. Other consideration in harvesting of cucumber is the distance of the market; cucumber does not stand much to long distance transportation.
• In fact, cucumber has to be sold out in heavy urban markets. Cucumbers are packed in baskets and transported. Being highly perishable, marketing of cucumber involves risks and losses and hence its cultivation is concentrated around the metropolitan cities.