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    Scope and Importance of Protected Cultivation

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    Protected cultivation involves modifying the natural environment to optimize plant growth through adjustments to aerial and root environments. This allows for increased crop yields, extended growing seasons, and the ability to grow crops during non-traditional periods. Greenhouse technology has been used for over 50 years worldwide, helping countries like China, Japan, and Holland intensify crop production despite shorter growing seasons. Protected cultivation has many important scopes, including cultivation in problematic agricultural zones, greenhouse complexes near cities to meet year-round demand, export of horticultural crops to reduce trade deficits, greenhouse propagation of seedlings and cuttings, use as a base for biotechnology practices, and cultivation of rare and medicinal plants.

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    Protected cultivation involves modifying the natural environment to optimize plant growth through adjustments to aerial and root environments. This allows for increased crop yields, extended growing seasons, and the ability to grow crops during non-traditional periods. Greenhouse technology has been used for over 50 years worldwide, helping countries like China, Japan, and Holland intensify crop production despite shorter growing seasons. Protected cultivation has many important scopes, including cultivation in problematic agricultural zones, greenhouse complexes near cities to meet year-round demand, export of horticultural crops to reduce trade deficits, greenhouse propagation of seedlings and cuttings, use as a base for biotechnology practices, and cultivation of rare and medicinal plants.

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    Protected cultivation involves modifying the natural environment to optimize plant growth through adjustments to aerial and root environments. This allows for increased crop yields, extended growing seasons, and the ability to grow crops during non-traditional periods. Greenhouse technology has been used for over 50 years worldwide, helping countries like China, Japan, and Holland intensify crop production despite shorter growing seasons. Protected cultivation has many important scopes, including cultivation in problematic agricultural zones, greenhouse complexes near cities to meet year-round demand, export of horticultural crops to reduce trade deficits, greenhouse propagation of seedlings and cuttings, use as a base for biotechnology practices, and cultivation of rare and medicinal plants.

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    Scope and Importance of Protected Cultivation

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    Protected cultivation involves modifying the natural environment to optimize plant growth through adjustments to aerial and root environments. This allows for increased crop yields, extended growing seasons, and the ability to grow crops during non-traditional periods. Greenhouse technology has been used for over 50 years worldwide, helping countries like China, Japan, and Holland intensify crop production despite shorter growing seasons. Protected cultivation has many important scopes, including cultivation in problematic agricultural zones, greenhouse complexes near cities to meet year-round demand, export of horticultural crops to reduce trade deficits, greenhouse propagation of seedlings and cuttings, use as a base for biotechnology practices, and cultivation of rare and medicinal plants.

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    Scope and Importance of Protected Cultivation

    Protected cultivation is the modification of the natural environment to achieve optimum


    plant growth. Modifications can be made to both the aerial and root environments to
    increase crop yields, extend the growing season and permit plant growth during periods
    of the year not commonly used to grow open field crops.
    Protected cultivation/Greenhouse technology has been in use for crop production for
    more than fifty countries all over the world. China is believed to have adopted plastic
    greenhouse concept to a great extent. Japan, with about 42,000 ha. (hectare) under
    plastic and glass cover land holdings with shorter growing season in Holland and Japan
    have been the reason behind adopting Protected cultivation /greenhouse for intensive
    crop production.
    SCOPE

    1. Cultivation in Problematic Agriculture Zones. There is about 75 mha of land in India


    comprising of such problematic conditions as barren and uncultivable, cultivable
    wasteland, fallow land, desert, sever cold. If a small portion of this area put under
    cultivation using greenhouse technology, then income generation of local habitat could
    be increased substantially.
    2. Greenhouse Complexes around Metropolitan and Other Big Cities. A conservative
    estimate revels that there is a large and sustained demand of fresh vegetables, fruits and
    ornamental plants throughout the year in almost every big city. These big cities also
    experience the need of off-season and high value crops. To meet the city requirement
    greenhouse cultivation may be a right option.
    3. Export of Agricultural Produce a agriculture in India is being considered increasingly to
    reduce the foreign trade deficit and there has been good international market for
    horticulture produce, especially, flowers from India. Promotion and greenhouse cultivation
    of export-oriented crops seems to be possible source of foreign earnings. Such facilities
    should be constructed near the lifting point to reduce the burden on transportation cost.
    4. Greenhouse for Plant Propagation Greenhouse technology is being, nowadays,
    considered as a suitable approach for raising of seedlings and cuttings which require
    control environment for their growth. The existing nurseries without a greenhouse facility
    could be converted into a greenhouse for improving the capacity as well as quality of the
    plant material. Even different type of plant material can be propagated using the
    greenhouse facility. In temperate climatic zone, the plant propagation through
    greenhouses would mean a considerable reduction in the total time required for
    preparation of saplings.
    5.Greenhouse Technology as Base for Other Biotechnology The hydroponics or nutrient
    film techniques require control environmental condition of growing plants. Similarly,
    material generated though tissue culture and biotechnological methods also need to be
    propagated in control environment. Greenhouse technology is the best-suited answer to
    carry out such type of studies.
    6.Cultivation of Rare and Medicinal Plants India has a wide variety of orchids/herbs, which
    have been identified for large scale cultivation. The greenhouse could provide the right
    type of environmental condition for the intensive cultivation of these plants.

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