Vegetative propagation is a type of asexual reproduction. In this, new plants are produced by the parts of plants like stem, roots and leaves without the help of any reproductive organ. This technique is widely used in horticultural crop nurseries.

Advantages of vegetative propagation are:

•Plants in which valuable characters of parents must be kept up, are proliferated vegetatively.

•The plants which don't deliver feasible seeds are proliferated by this method.

•Plants with decreased intensity of sexual multiplication, long lethargic time of seed or poor practicality are duplicated effectively through this method.

•Vegetative propagation likewise helps in expelling regular diseases from the parent plant.