Abstract

Edible pod pea which includes snow pea (Pisum sativumvar. saccharatum) and sugar snap pea (Pisum sativumvar. macrocarpon) is one of the popular cool seasonoriental vegetable which shares the cultivation patternwith the garden pea. The pods are mildly flavoured, lackpod parchment or fibre and can be eaten together asplump pods along with partially developed seeds usuallyby removing the tough strings along the edges of podsas salad, lightly boiled, steamed or used in ‘stir-fry’ andother dishes. At the global level, garden pea covers anarea of about 2.67 million hectares with a production of20.70 million metric tonnes and productivity of 7.75metric tonnes/ha (Anonymous 2017).

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