Protected Cultivation-An Entrepreneurship for Modern Agriculture

Protected cultivation includes the techniques by which crop can be protected from factors which causes loss in yield both in terms of quantity and quality, by which per unit area production can be increased with premium quality produce. Unlike traditional agriculture, this technology opened all the doors of success for rural, semi urban and even urban youth with ample scope of employment and improves socio economic standards. Hundreds of farmers are leaving agriculture every day in our country and this is big challenge to retain farmers and increase the interest of youth towards agriculture. In this direction protected cultivation of vegetable crops is best entrepreneurship for modern agriculture, further increasing population and shrinking land is became a very big challenge for present agriculture scenario as we have to increase the production of agriculture from available land and limited resources. To bridge the gap of production, increasing productivity is only available option. There are several factors which affect productivity and important ones are varietal improvement, integrated nutrient management, integrated disease management, integrated pest management and standard package and practices which have already been explored and drastic changes will not be possible by these means for increasing production.