Vegetables and Potato Production/Promotion Team

The mission of the team is to ensure the production of national requirements of vegetables and potato through an annual targeted production programme, with the final objectives of enhancing farmer income and increased per capita consumption while meeting the nutritional requirements and export demand, and provide employment through agro-based industries.


Vegetable production programme.

Under this programme, priority is given to increase the production of 21 vegetable crops. The crops include up-country vegetables(beans, tomato, carrot, leeks, capsicum, cabbage, beet-root and radish), low –country vegetable ( brinjal, okra, bitter gourd, snakegourd, luffa, red pumpkin, cucumber, ash plantain and leafy, vegetables)and root and tuber crops (sweet potato, cassava, etc).
Potato production programme

Under this programme, major emohasis is given to reduce the cost of production of potato through increasing productivity and expanding the local seed production by use of tissue-cultured production programme.