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GUIDING PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES FOR SUCCESSFUL VEGETABLE GROWING
Vegetables can be grown over a wide range of soils and of climatic conditions in Ethiopia. Success
in growing them, like other crops is basically based on two main principles, the first to maintain
favourable conditions with regard to applying improved crop management practices for normal
growth and development of the crop and the second to keep the plants free from diseases and ...
insect pests and ultimately increased crop yields and quality of produce. Vegetables like fruits have
a special place in the farming system because of the intensive nature of production. Vegetables
can give high yields per unit area of land as compared to cereals and hence they generate high
income for the farmers and producers because of high market value and profitability nature of the
crops. Vegetables like fruit crops require intensive cultural practices and the financial and labour
inputs involved are therefore, greater than those required for most staple food crops. Due to these
factors and the perishable nature of most vegetables, it is apparent that the vegetable garden must
be carefully planned. Therefore, in the planning phase it will be important to collect relevant range data
regarding soil, climate and other socio- economic parameters of the area and analyzed thoroughly.
Then based on the data collected and analyzed, it will be important to come up with appropriate
recommendations of the planned activities.
Therefore, selection of suitable soils, determining appropriate climatic conditions, selection of
appropriate crop varieties, methods of production system, planting method, pruning, cultivating,
fertilizing /manuring, water requirements of crops and its efficient application and protection of
crops from diseases and insect pests attack, are important factors that need prime consideration
in successful vegetable growing. In general terms warm season vegetables such as tomato, pepper,
water melon, cucumber and the like are grown in the lowland areas, where irrigation water is
available; whereas cool season vegetables such as cabbage, carrot, beet root, garlic, kale, Swiss
Charge and the like are grown in cool climatic areas both under rainfed and irrigation conditions
in homestead and commercial farms both for domestic use and export markets