Tropical and subtropical vegetables (2+1)

Vegetable forcing

• It is the method of growing the vegetables out of their normal season in net houses, green houses, glass houses and under other artificial growing conditions. In Indian condition vegetable forcing is not possible because the consumers cannot afford the prices of such vegetables.

The following are the characteristics of this type of farming.
a) Cost of production is higher than other method of vegetable production.
b) Various structures viz., green house, cold frames etc are required for forcing vegetables.
c) The cultivation is most intensive.
d) It requires special technical knowledge.
e) Environment is controlled artificially.
f) It is a sort of specialized demand oriented programme. Few vegetable crops such as tomatoes, cucumbers, peas, asparagus etc are grown in this type of farming.