Vegetable mechanized harvesting technology has attracted much more attention in recent years in China. The features of vegetable harvesters were analyzed. In the sort of leaf vegetable, root vegetable and fruit vegetable, the research progress and development of cabbage harvester, carrot harvester and tomato harvester etc in domestic and overseas were reviewed respectively. In consideration of the development and the extension, some problems in vegetable harvesters were analyzed. The main research fields were presented, including the analysis of vegetable mechanical properties, the combination of agronomy and machinery, the optimization design of mechanical structure, the improvement of harvester generality and the intelligent system of machinery-electric- hydraulic admixture.