Poly-house farming is a substitute agricultural technique in rural India which shrinks the dependency on rainfall and makes the best possible use of land and water resources. Though this technology has been accepted by farmers in Jalandhar district, still the adoption rate is not impressive. Identifying the factors that encourage the farmers for adopting and declining poly-house farming has significance, because it leads to the grass root level constraints faced by them. In these circumstances, the present study was conducted to identify the constraints faced by poly-house farmers from a sample of 50 farmers through convenience sampling technique. The data on major constraints like technical constraints, socio-economic constraints, marketing constraints, infrastructural constraints, environmental constraints and labour constraints were collected from each respondent through personal interview method with the help of pretested structured schedule. It was observed that technical was the most important constraint as it was ranked first. This was followed by socio-economic constraints, marketing constraints, infrastructural constraints, environmental constraints and labour constraints which were ranked II, III, IV, V and VI respectively by the respondents. The present study emphasized the concerted efforts from all concerned agencies to bring this technology at par with the global standards.
Adoption, Constraints, Polyhouse, Vegetable cultivation
