When crops like onion, radish, carrots are grown in the field, we find the young vegetables available in the market. Why is it so?

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MP Police Constable Previous Year Paper (Held On: 18 July 2016 Shift 3)

People prefer to have young vegetables like spring onions, etc
There is lot of taste difference in the different stages of growth of vegetables
This is done to avoid over ‐ crowding of growing plants. So, the young plants are removed from time to time as they grow
People like to have some of the crops regularly in their diet. Therefore, these crops are removed from time to time.

Answer 1

The correct answer is This is done to avoid over‐crowding of growing plants. So, the young plants are removed from time to time as they grow.

Key Points

As we know, from time to time young plants are removed as they grow so that there may not be overcrowding of growing plants in a single place.
Vegetable production operations range from small patches of crops, producing a few vegetables for family use or marketing, to the great, highly organized and mechanized farms common in the most technologically advanced countries.

Scientific names of these crops: