• B.Anusha
• Dr. A Vinayagaram

Vegetables can be eaten either raw or cooked and play an important role in human nutrition. Vegetables have been part of the human diet from time immemorial. Some are staple foods but most are accessory foodstuffs, adding variety to meals with their unique flavors and at the same time, adding nutrients necessary for health. Different varieties of vegetable crops are being cultivated in Agasteeswaram block, having suitable soil for cultivating different vegetable crops, in Kanniyakumari district. Among different three-month vegetable crops, three crops such as ladies finger, cucumber and tomato are cultivated by more than 80 per cent of the farmers in this block. Among the 12 Village Panchayats in this block, these three crops are cultivated in 92 per cent of the total cultivated area in two villages namely Swamythoppu and Karumpattur. Vegetable growers largely depend on the cultivation of different varieties of vegetables for their agricultural income. Harvesting cost is found to be higher and application of pesticide is lower in the two villages. The vegetable crop ‘ladies finger’ is highly a profitable crop in the study area. The vegetable growers in Karumpattur were more efficient in getting net revenue than the growers in Swamythoppu. The vegetable growers suffer from different anomalies. If these anomalies are overcome either by own effort of the vegetable growers or by the government support, this will pave the way for cultivating different types of vegetables so that the revenue of the growers can be increased on the one hand and there be no shortage in the supply of different types of vegetables, leading to boost up the village economy.

Vegetable crops, Cost structure, Cost-Benefit, Anomalies

"A STUDY ON SELECTED VEGETABLE CROPS IN THE RURAL AREAS OF AGASTEESWARAM BLOCK, KANNIYAKUMARI DISTRICT", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.851-853, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906N30.pdf

"A STUDY ON SELECTED VEGETABLE CROPS IN THE RURAL AREAS OF AGASTEESWARAM BLOCK, KANNIYAKUMARI DISTRICT", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp851-853, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906N30.pdf