Perennial Vegetables - Key to Alleviate Malnutrition

Abstract

Perennial vegetables meant for low maintenance and rich rewards besides key source of pharmaceutical principles, which gives structure to both garden and soil as they are not removed annually. Moreover, these are amenable for cultivation in the place where cultivation of annual vegetables is difficult as these are potential source to address the challenges like biodiversity of crops, environment variation and nutrient scarcities. Due to woody nature, these species act as a carbon sequester and notified as potential tool to compensate the losses due to crop biodiversity. Only few commonly cultivated vegetables are also able to address nutrient deficiencies as like perennial ones. These species are rich sources of multi-nutrients and have the inherent capability to overcome diet deficits. Hence, necessary steps to be taken to increase the vegetable production to threefold to offer healthy foods to the growing world population. In this context, necessary steps to be undertaken to incorporate the perennial vegetable in the new production areas to achieve the aforementioned goal.