Economics of Cultivation of Blackberry
GREEN HOUSE
INTRODUCTION
Agriculture is the backbone of India’s economic activity and our experience during the last 50 years has demonstrated the strong correlation between agricultural growth and economic prosperity. The present agricultural scenario is a mix of outstanding achievements and missed opportunities. If India has to emerge as an economic power in the world, our agricultural productivity should equal those countries, which are currently rated as economic power of the world. We need a new and effective technology which can improve continuously the productivity, profitability, sustainability of our major farming systems. One such technology is the green house technology. Although it is centuries old, it is new to India. So, Greenhouse Technology is the technique of providing favorable environment condition to the plants. “Greenhouses are framed or inflated structures covered with transparent or translucent material large enough to grow crops under partial or fully controlled environmental conditions to get optimum level of productivity. ADVANTAGES OF GREENHOUSES: * The yield may be 10-12 times higher than that of outdoor cultivation depending upon the type of greenhouse, type of crop, environmental control facilities. * Reliability of crop increases under greenhouse cultivation. * Ideally suited for vegetables and flower crops. * Year round production of floricultural crops. * Off-season production of vegetable and fruit crops. * Disease-free and genetically superior transplants can be produced continuously. * Efficient utilization of chemicals, pesticides to control pest and diseases. * Water requirement of crops very limited and easy to control. * Maintenance of stock plants, cultivating grafted plant-lets and micro propagated plant-lets. * Hardening of tissue cultured plants * Production of quality produce free of blemishes. * Most useful in
INTRODUCTION
Agriculture is the backbone of India’s economic activity and our experience during the last 50 years has demonstrated the strong correlation between agricultural growth and economic prosperity. The present agricultural scenario is a mix of outstanding achievements and missed opportunities. If India has to emerge as an economic power in the world, our agricultural productivity should equal those countries, which are currently rated as economic power of the world. We need a new and effective technology which can improve continuously the productivity, profitability, sustainability of our major farming systems. One such technology is the green house technology. Although it is centuries old, it is new to India. So, Greenhouse Technology is the technique of providing favorable environment condition to the plants. “Greenhouses are framed or inflated structures covered with transparent or translucent material large enough to grow crops under partial or fully controlled environmental conditions to get optimum level of productivity. ADVANTAGES OF GREENHOUSES: * The yield may be 10-12 times higher than that of outdoor cultivation depending upon the type of greenhouse, type of crop, environmental control facilities. * Reliability of crop increases under greenhouse cultivation. * Ideally suited for vegetables and flower crops. * Year round production of floricultural crops. * Off-season production of vegetable and fruit crops. * Disease-free and genetically superior transplants can be produced continuously. * Efficient utilization of chemicals, pesticides to control pest and diseases. * Water requirement of crops very limited and easy to control. * Maintenance of stock plants, cultivating grafted plant-lets and micro propagated plant-lets. * Hardening of tissue cultured plants * Production of quality produce free of blemishes. * Most useful in