What is Vegetable Growing and Vegetable Cultivation?

What is vegetable growing and vegetable cultivation, what should vegetable farmers follow for better agricultural production?

what is vegetable farming? 

Vegetable farming is the growing of vegetables for human consumption.

The practice probably started in several parts of the world over ten thousand years ago, with families growing vegetables for their own consumption or to trade locally.

At first manual labor was used but in time livestock were domesticated and the ground could be turned by the plow.

More recently, mechanization has revolutionized vegetable farming with nearly all processes being able to be performed by a machine.

Specialist producers grow the particular crops that do well in their locality.

New methods such as aquaponics, raised beds, and cultivation under glass are used.

Marketing can be done locally in farmer's markets, traditional markets, or pick-your-own operations, or farmers can contract their whole crops to wholesalers, canners, or retailers.

Common vegetable crops 

Fabaceae (pea family): peas, beans, lentils

Solanaceae (nightshade family): tomatoes, eggplants, bell peppers, potatoes

Brassicaceae (mustard family): cauliflower, cabbage, brussels sprouts, broccoli

Allium family: onions, garlic, leek, shallot, chives

Carrots (Apiaceae)

Lettuce (Asteraceae)

cucurbit family of plants including melon, cantaloupe, cucumber, calabash, squash, and pumpkin

Growing methods

Over the past 100 years, a new technique has emerged-raised bed gardening, which has increased yields from small plots of soil without the need for commercial, energy-intensive fertilizers.

hydroponic farming produces very high yields in greenhouses without using any soil.

How to use available technological methods to produce higher yield vegetable crops?

we should use developed technologies ti increase the productivity and nutrient quality of vegetable crops.

we should develop high yielding, quality, disease and pest, and resistant crops.

we should develop coordinated research to produce the best breeder seed production of different varieties.