| dc.description | Human nutrition is very essential in order to develop a nation in all respect.
Vegetables may play a vital role in this aspect. In the recent years, the value of
vegetables has been recognized as an important item of daily human diet all over
the world. They have been playing a very important role in our daily diet by
providing taste, palatability, variability and increase appetite. Generally vegetables
are rich sources of minerals, vitamins and essential amino acids. They are essential
for a balanced diet and neutralizing the acids produced during digestion of rich
foods (meats cheese and fatty foods). They are oouiiered as one of the most
important. groups of food crops having features of high nutritive value, labourintensive, relatively higher yield and higher fiscal gain. They are considered as a
cheap natural source of supplementary food and can be grown in a short duration.
Being labour intensive, vegetable production creates opportunities for employment.
The average consumption of vegetables in Bangladesh is only 70 g per head
per day including potato and sweet potato. Except tuber crops, it is only 30 g as
against the FAO recommendation of 200 g. To supply the rivinierdeh daily
requirement of 200 gm vegetables/head/day, national production of vegetables
should be over 10 million tons. In addition, population of Bangladesh is increasing
rapidly, therefore, demand for vegetables is increasing simultaneously. | en_US |
