Practice wise extent of adoption of Tomato growers in Annamaya District of Andhra Pradesh.
Pravallika. P1, Kalidasan. T2 and S. Rajaguru3
1,2Department of Agricultural Extension, Annamalai Unversity - 608002 (India) 3Pushkaram College of Agriculture Science, Pudukkottai - 622303 (India)
ABSTRACT
Tomato (Lycopersicum esculentum) belongs to the genus Lycopersicum under the Solanaceae family. Tomato is a fruit that is almost universally treated as a vegetable and a perennial plant that is almost universallytreated as an annual.Tomatois a well-known and verypopular vegetable grown successfully throughout India.Tomato is a highly nutritive vegetable which is a rich source of vitamins A, B and C. Tomato is a major vegetable crop that has achieved tremendous popularity over the last century. It is grown in practicallyevery country of the world - in outdoor fields, greenhouses, and net houses. Most of the farmers had a medium level of adoption ontomatocultivation.