Poly Houses for Vegetable Fruit and Flower cultivation
Poly houses have been found useful for cultivation of off season vegetables, fruits and flowers for gaining good incomes. Rates of the off season produce are quite lucrative which make this option a sustainable one.
Accordingly, two poly houses (20mx10mx2.4m each) were constructed and demonstrated in vill. Haddam and to start with, seedlings of vegetables were raised for sale. Farmers were told how controlled moisture, temperature and light effect germination and growth of seedlings. It is planned to raise vine vegetables and demonstrate the methodology of cultivation along with erection of the poly houses and finally work out economics of the whole enterprise. The outcomes of this demonstration proved motivating factors to the farmers were so far doing only traditional cultivation.