The study was done on the problems faced by farmers in protected cultivation of vegetables in six districts of Punjab viz Amritsar, Gurdaspur, Sangrur, Moga, Jalandhar and Kapurthala. Atotal of 150 respondents were selected for the study by probability proportion of number of farmers practicing protected vegetable cultivation from the selected districts and the data were collected by personally interviewing the respondents. The results revealed that majority of the respondents faced the problems related to high cost of establishment and technical knowhow of protected structures. Non-availability of minimum support price (MSP) for vegetable produce and problems related to labour were the other considerable obstacles in vegetable cultivation under protected structures. It was concluded that there was need to fix MSP for vegetable produce and training camps should be organized at the block or field level for the farmers.
Protected cultivation, adoption, technical knowhow, vegetables, problems
