Advantages of Horticultural Crop

• Horticultural crop produce of higher biomass than field crops per unit areas resulting in efficient utilization of natural resources.
• Highly remunerative for replacing subsistence farming and thus alleviate poverty level in rainfed, dryland hilly arid and costal agro-systems.
• Potential for development wastelands through planned strategies,
• Need comparatively less water than food crops
• Provide higher employment opportunity,
• Important for nutritional security.
• Environment-friendly
• High value crops with high potential of value-addition
• High potential of value addition,
• High potential for foreign exchange earnings.
• Make higher contribution to GDP, (Gross Domestic Product) i.e.24.5% from 8.5 % area under these crops.