This review discusses the various cropping systems (multiple cropping, intercropping and cover cropping) that are successfully adopted for some tropical vegetables in India, including a few tuber vegetables. The role of cropping systems in crop protection (specifically the management of diamond back moth [ Plutella xylostella] in cabbage using collard as a trap crop, use of maize as an intercrop to control a viral disease of pepper, reduction of the incidence of bacterial wilt caused by Pseudomonas solanacearum [ Ralstonia solanacearum] in tomato by intercropping, and use of French marigold [ Tagetes patula] as a trap crop for the control of Meloidogyne incognita on potato) is briefly discussed.
