Abstract: The invention relates to packaging crate for transport and storage of light vegetables, having the form of a slightly truncated rectangular parallelipiped open towards the top and including five walls delimiting the five other faces of the paralellipiped, and defining the bottom 1, and the four side 2, 3, 4, 5 walls of the cram, and provided with stacking and nesting means 7a, 8a, 9a, 10a.According to the present invention this packaging crate is made of the association of a rigid framework delimited by two lower 1a and upper 6a peripheral belts, joined by four angled spacer columns 7, 8, 9, 10 to filling pannels formed with spaced slats in a latticework structure with lower rigidity than the elements which constitute the aforementionel frame.