Declining profitability of rice cultivation, changing patterns of food demand in the rapidly growing cities and liberalized Indian economy putting challenges before the planners and policy makers to maintain a steady growth of food grain production to feed the growing population and at the same...

Continuous fragmentation of land, lack of public investments and above all shifting of food consumption pattern towards high value products particularly fruits and vegetable have made India's grain-based cropping pattern non-remunerative. In the present era of globalization, horticulture appears...