Abstract

Organic farming plays an important role sustainable agriculture production with quality and environmental safety. Vegetable crops as one of the main component of agricultural sector, is providing nutritional security as general and source for livelihood in many farming communities especially the small marginal holders across the world. This chapter deals with organic production practices of vegetable. Nutritional quality of organic vegetables, nutrient management options for organic vegetables, disease and pest management in organic vegetables are discussed in details. In addition soil health management in organic vegetables, soil biological properties are also depicted. The chapter has discussed about Impact of organic vegetable farming on Environment. How Organic farming can enhance rural vitality, health risk reduction employment opportunity, ecotourism, are documented based on the recent studies.

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