Vegetable farming

Introduction
Types of production
- Production for the fresh market
- Production for processing
- Vegetables raised for seed production
Production factors and techniques
- Climate
  - Temperature
  - Moisture
  - Daylight
- Site
- Soil preparation and management
- Propagation
- Planting
- Care of crops during growth
  - Cultivation
  - Irrigation
  - Fertilizer application
  - Weed control
  - Disease and insect control
  - Frost protection
  - Growth regulators
- Harvesting
Storage
Premarketing operations and selling
- Precooling
- Grading
- Packaging
- Selling

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Written by

Warid A. Warid

Former Professor of Agriculture, University of Al Fateh, Tripoli, Libya. Coauthor of Vegetable Production.

Warid A. Warid

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Vegetable farming, growing of vegetable crops, primarily for use as human food. The term vegetable in its broadest sense refers to any kind of plant life or plant product; in the narrower sense, as used in this article, however, it refers to the fresh, edible portion of a herbaceous plant consumed in either raw or cooked form. The edible portion may be a root, such as rutabaga, beet, carrot, and sweet potato; a tuber or...

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