The emerging trend worldwide and also in the country is indicative of a paradigm shift in dietary needs of the people, with rise in the income there is more demand of horticultural produce. [...] Change in dynamics of horticulture is now for health care through the use of horticultural produce for the treatment of many diseases, therapy, and environment services and above all to the improved quality of life. [...] The area and production in different group of crops and their share in gross area and production of total horticultural crops is given in table 1. [...] There is dire need to make available large number of planting material in different horticultural crops to fill the gap of 65- 70 per cent requirement so that most of the farmers who do not have access to elite certified planting material and face the problem of low production and productivity and quality of produce, may have access of quality planting material and benefit from good produce. [...] A number of 124 varieties in medicinal plants and 8 in aromatic crops have been developed with high yields and nutraceutical content to minimize over exploitation of the natural wealth available in the forests thus enabling commercial production of many medicinal and aromatic crops in the horticulture based cropping systems.
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