Impact of Climate Change on Vegetable Cultivation: A Review

Vegetables are an important component of human diet as they are the only source of nutrients vitamins and minerals. They are also good remunerative to the farmer as they fetch higher price in the market. Like wise other crops they are also being hit by the con sequences of climate change such as global warming changes in seasonal and monsoon pattern and biotic and abiotic factors. Under changing climatic situations crop failures shortage of yields reduction in quality and increasing pest and disease problems are common and they render the vegetable cultivation unprofitable. Potato among the all vegetables is most vulnerable to climate change due to its exact climatic requirement for various physiological processes.