*Post Doctoral Fellowship, Deportment of Economics, S.K. University, Anantapuramu, Andhra Pradesh, India
**Deportment of Statistics, S.V. University, Tirupathi, Andhra Pradesh, India
Online published on 3 June, 2015.
The term ‘Horticulture’ is probably of recent origin and it first appeared in writings of 17th century. The term horticulture is derived from the Latin: hortus (garden) and cultura (cultivation), which means garden cultivation. The range of Horticulture products includes fruits, vegetables, spices, coconut, floriculture, medicinal and aromatic plants, mushrooms, cashew, cocoa, etc. In India total horticulture crops area had been 23.2 million hectares and total production had been 257.2 million tonnes. Andhra Pradesh State is highly suitable to raise horticulture crops; as such the state as a whole accounts for more than 16 lakh hectare of land brought under horticulture crops, production more than 209 lakh million tonnes of horticulture crops during the year 2013–14.
