Handbook of Vegetable Crops one of the most popular publications of the ICAR with a wider readership. In the present edition, an effort has been made to present science-led developments in Indian agriculture, the ongoing research efforts at the national level and some ideas on the shape of future agriculture. While information in some chapters such as soil and water, land utilization, field and forage crops have been updated with latest developments many new topics such as the environment, agrobiodiversity, resource conservation technologies, IPM, Pesticide residues, seed production and technologies, energy in agriculture, informatics, biotechnology intellectual property rights, agricultural marketing and trading and indigenous technical knowledge have been added.