Protected Cultivation of Flowers for Domestic and Export Market

Abstract

The advent of green revolution results in higher production but after this the demand was for quality produce with quantity, and that was only possible with the provision of optimum climate to the crop which can exploit the greater potential of the plants. This demand results to grow plants under controlled environmental conditions and called as protected cultivation. Protected cultivation is a technique of crop cultivation when the micro climate of the plant body is controlled partially or fully as per requirement of plant growth. As the agricultural technologies are improving, the various new protected cultivation practices have been emerged. Different kinds of protected structures adopted, on the basis of different agro-climatic region of India and availability of resources. Green house, Plastic house, high poly tunnels, low poly tunnels, Cloth house, Net house, shade house etc. are different structures which are used under protected International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 8 Number 10 (2019) Journal homepage: http://www.ijcmas.com