Indian Journal of Economics and Development
  • Year: 2017
  • Volume: 13
  • Issue: 2a

Doubling of farmer's income by vegetable crop production under polyhouse

  • Author:
  • Parveen Kumar2,, R.S. Chauhan1, Nitin Tanwar2, R.K. Grover1, Raj Kumar1
  • Total Page Count: 6
  • Page Number: 295 to 300

1Department of Agricultural Economics, CCSHAU, Hisar-125004

2Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics, CCSHAU, Hisar-125004

*Corresponding author's email: nitintanwar5@gmail.com

JELCodes: C83, D24, E43, O13, Q12, Q28

Abstract

This study aimed to economic analysis of different cropping rotation of vegetables under polyhouse in Haryana (India). The overall findings of the study revealed that the cost of cultivation of tomato-cucumber, capsicum-cucumber and cucumber-cucumbercucumber rotation under polyhouse was 607720.36, 581816.43 and 849876.2 per acre, respectively. Present study concluded that gross return was highest in crop rotation of cucumber-cucumber-cucumber with 12, 56, 034 per acre followed by tomatocucumber (8, 99, 444.4) and capsicum-cucumber (877430.5), respectively while net return was 406157.8, 291724.03 and 295614.06, respectively.

Keywords

Crop rotation, polyhouse, returns, vegetable