Protected Cultivation and Secondary Agriculture: Lecture Notes for Agriculture Students

Sustainable agricultural development requires a control of environmental conditions. Greenhouse technology, a branch of controlled environment agriculture, has experienced fast growth, mainly due to climate change and the demand of high quality fresh fruit, vegetables, herbs and flowers in developed countries. Greenhouse Technology is the technique of providing favourable environment condition to the plants. It is rather used to protect the plants from the adverse climatic conditions such as wind, cold, precepitation, excessive radiation, extreme temperature, insects and diseases. It is also of vital importance to create an ideal micro climate around 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 growth and productivity.This Book will serve for Agriculture Students undergoing undergraduate courses in India.