Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Introduction Development of vegetable sub sector is of great importance in densely populated developing countries with high unemployment due to its labour intensive culture; high value added ability both as commodity and as a processed fnal product and high nutritional value. Quality seed is a prerequisite for development of vegetable sector but unfortunately the annual vegetable seed production in Pakistan is about 84 tons that is negligible quantity for the requirement of the country Akhonzada. 1 Most of the vegetable seed requirements are met through imports from Europe, USA, Japan and India. Thus vegetable seed production is not only important for development of vegetable sector but also will earn/save scarce foreign exchange. The UNDP, The British High commission, AKRSP, and other donor agencies are pushing for introducing vegetable and vegetable seed production to replace poppy and as a strategy of poverty alleviation in Northern Pakistan. The empirical literature documents the importance of relative proftability of vegetable and vegetable seed production and factors affecting them. For instance, Defoer et al. 2 and Malik A 3 for Pakistan, Thakur et al. 4 and Kutty et al., 5 for India, and Groin et al., 6 for sub-Saharan Africa show comparatively higher net returns from vegetable and vegetable seed production than other crops. Studies such as Santini 7 for Itlay, Abak et al., 8 for Turkey et al., 9 for Canada USA depict that lack of modern techniques, ineffcient production and marketing infrastructure are seriously affecting the costs and net returns of vegetable and vegetable seed production. In this paper, we use quantitative analysis to: i. Estimate and compare the costs and net revenue of selected vegetable grown for consumption and seed crops; ii. Identify the factors effecting the production and marketing of vegetable and vegetable seed iii. Forward policy recommendations for the improvement of vegetable seed production. Material and Methods The study is carried out in district Gilgit, Gilgit-Baltistan due to its ideal climatic conditions for vegetable seed production and its recent introduction by AKRSP through North south seed corporation as a strategy for poverty alleviation. Primary data was collected for selected vegetables i.e. onion, tomato and peas for the harvesting season 2004-2005 from 90 growers, 45 each for consumption and seed crops. A pretested questionnaire is used to get the background information of growers, data on economics of vegetables production and problems faced by the growers. Data analysis techniques Budgeting technique is used to arrive at costs net revenues of selected vegetables grown for consumption and seed crops. Then differences between the costs and benefts of the two types of vegetable crops, that is, fresh vegetable crop and the one produced as seed crop, are analyzed by the following techniques. Comparing two means: using t-statistics Partial budgeting uses simple averages to compare the costs and net revenues of two scenarios but these statements cannot decide whether the differences statistically signifcant or not. For this purpose, we can use the “Test of difference between two means” newbold 10 there are generally two such tests, namely. Test of difference between two means of matched pair: This test hypothesis: H0:μvc=μvs H1:μvc≠μvs Where: μvc =Average cost (or net revenues) of fresh crops Adv Plants Agric Res. 2016;4(5):364‒366. 364 ©2016 Verma et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and build upon your work non-commercially. Quantitative analysis of returns from vegetable seed crop and fresh vegetables, a case of district gilgit (Gilgit-Baltistan) Volume 4 Issue 5 - 2016 Verma AK, Singh Deepti Munir Ahmed, Ali Noor Shah M Azhar Javaid and Tajwar Alam Correspondence: Ali Noor Shah M Azhar Javaid, Senior Scientist, National Institute of Organic agriculture, Pakistan, Email azharjavaid359@yahoo.com Received: May 10, 2016 | Published: September 26, 2016 Abstract The objective of this study was to estimate and compare the costs and revenues of selected vegetables grown for fresh consumption to that of seed crops in district Gilgit. The analysis is based on survey data for 2011-12 harvesting year. Mean comparing t-statistics with dummy variable approach is used as data concordance with each other; indicate that except for net revenue of onion the costs and net revenue of selected vegetables for consumption and seed are statistically different. The analysis conclude that vegetable fresh crops give higher net revenues than vegetable seed in project area due to the high cost of production and low price of output of seed crops. The study reveals, however, that vegetable seed crops have the potential to become attractive enterprise if proper attention is given to develop production and marketing infrastructure. Keywords: labour intensive culture, vegetable seed, consumption, gilgi, harvesting, revenues, infrastructure Advances in Plants & Agriculture Research Research Article Open Access