This course provides basic knowledge and practices in commercial vegetable production including introduction to horticulture, its branches, olericulture and its related terminologies; importance and scope of commercial vegetable production; types of vegetable farming; edaphic and climatic factors; cultural practices f commercial vegetable and spice crops with respect to origin, area, production,varieties etc. This course covers off-season vegetable production techniques, principles and practices of seed production and seed production techniques of  the crops potato, radish, carrot, beans, peas, tomato, cauliflower,cabbage,cucumber and onion.