Editorial | Green house sheds Scheme gears up to Help Farmers

As Kashmir awaits winters, govt with ‘greenhouse sheds’ scheme gears up to help farmers . Department has enhanced the distribution of Green house sheds and their installation. The saplings had also been distributed for vegetation . The Horticulture department has introduced the scheme years ago, offering applications from the desirous farmers for the installation of miniature greenhouses and provides them with an amount of 10,000 (ten thousand) as a subsidiary. Greenhouses are frames of inflated structure covered with a transparent material in which crops are grown under controlled environment conditions. Greenhouse cultivation as well as other modes of controlled environment cultivation have been evolved to create favorable micro-climates, which favours the crop production could be possible all through the year or part of the year as required. According to agretech portal Greenhouses and other technologies for controlled environment plant production are associated with the off-season production of ornamentals and foods of high value in cold climate areas where outdoor production is not possible.