AREA, PRODUCTION AND PRODUCTIVITY OF VEGETABLES AND ESTIMATION OF VEGETABLE SEED REQUIREMENT

Vegetables are one of the cheapest sources of nutrition and have important role in fighting hunger and nutritional security. The vegetable sector is characterized by verity, not only in terms of the diversity of crops but also in terms of number of countries across the globe. Haveri district of Karnataka is a one of the major vegetable producing district. To study the growth rate of area, production and productivity of tomato, cabbage, green chilli and brinjal crops in Haveri, compound growth rate was used taking the data from 2005-06 to 2015-16. It was observed that all the crops in Haveri district had shown growth in area ranging from 6.46 to 10.78 per cent. Highest growth in area was observed in green chilli and lowest tomato. Similarly, production of selected crops in the district was grown within the range of 5.22 per cent to 13.07 and highest production growth was observed in green chilli. Significant productivity was observed in tomato and cabbage. Overall, production increased due to increase in area, not due to productivity enhancement in the selected vegetables. Projected demand for all the selected vegetables in Haveri district revealed that increasing demand for the next five years and growth rate of demand will be from 1.68 to 5.59 per cent per annum. Highest growth in demand is predicted for green chilli in the district.