Importance of vegetables and spices in human nutrition and national economy, kitchen gardening.

Brief about origin, area, climate, soil, improved varieties and cultivation practices such as time of sowing, transplanting techniques, planting distance, fertilizer requirements, irrigation, weed management, harvesting and yield, physiological disorders of important vegetable and spices:

Tomato, Brinjal, chili and capsicum.

Cucumber, bitter gourd, Bottle gourd and pumpkin.

Watermelon and muskmelon.

Sweet potato, cassava and moringa

French bean, peas; and okra.

Cole crops such as cabbage, cauliflower and knol-Khol.

Bulb crops such as onion and garlic

Root crops such as carrot, radish and beetroot, in Tuber crops such as potato. 1

Leafy vegetables such as amaranth and palak.

Perennial vegetables: Drumstick and curry leaf. H

Spice crops like turmeric, zinger, garlic, coriander and cumin T

Black pepper and cardamom.

Fenugreek, fennel, clove, nutmeg, cinnamon, tamarind and herbal spices.

Identification of vegetables and spice crops and their seeds.

Description of varieties.

Propagation methods – rapid multiplication techniques – seed collection and extraction.

Nursery raising.

Direct seed sowing and transplanting.

Study of morphological characters of different vegetables and spices.

Fertilizers applications.

Harvesting and post-harvest practices.

Economics of vegetables and spices cultivation.

Visit to spice gardens.