· To undertake innovative, basic, strategic, anticipatory and applied research for developing technologies to enhance productivity of vegetable crops, their nutrient quality and post-harvest management.

· To provide scientific leadership in coordinated network research for solving location-specific problems of production and to monitor breeder seed production of released/ notified varieties and parental lines.

· To act as a national repository of scientific information relevant to vegetable crops and as a centre for training for up-gradation of scientific manpower working on vegetable crops.

· To develop high yielding, good quality, disease and insect pest resistant varieties/ hybrids of selected vegetable crops.

· To develop advanced production and protection technologies for selected vegetable varieties/ hybrids.

· To undertake germplasm collection, maintenance and documentation in vegetable crops.