Agriculture has to play a major role in the economy of the country while more attention is being paid on the cultivation of supplementary food crops. Accordingly the Ministry of Agriculture is implementing this programme island wide with the objective of achieving self sufficiency in supplementary food crops by 2016. In consideration of enormous expenditure to be incurred annually on the import of supplementary food crops to meet the local requirement, cultivation of the same locally is much helpful to boost the economy of the country.