Vegetables

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Vegetables our most important source of vital
micronutrients
One improved tomato can provide all our daily
vitamin A requirements

• A 6m x 6m Indian home vegetable garden can
  provide all the vitamin A and vitamin C, and most
  iron and protein for a family of four each year

Vegetable supplies are well below the minimum for
good health in most countries
Recommended allowance
Average of 3 year trials in AP, Punjab and
Jharkhand
6m x 6m yields 250 to 350 kg vegetables per year
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