Author(s):
1. Muhammad Bakhtiar Khan:
Department of Economics University of Peshawar,Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,Pakistan
2. Jangraiz Khan:
Elementary and Secondary Education,Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,Pakistan
Abstract:
| There has been an increasing trend of growing of-season vegetables in order to get best prices for the agricultural products and also provide food throughout the year. Growing vegetables in tunnel have been adopted by many farmers. However, growing of-season vegetables in tunnels entails added eforts and cost. Through this research study the economic analysis of Tunnel farming of of-season vegetables has been done for district Peshawar. Primary data was collected from eighty-four farmers who had grown of-season vegetables through tunnel-farming, and seasonal vegetables without tunnel and their productivity were compared. It was found that output per acre in tunnel was significantly higher than that of without tunnel. All the three vegetables viz tomato, cucumber and bottle gourd gave higher revenue, however tomato gave the highest return. Growing vegetables through tunnel farming involve higher cost in the shape of structure installation and inputs. Tunnel-farming is scientific farming and the growers need to be properly educated and trained. Establishing of cold storage facilities will greatly help farmers to fetch higher income. Additionally, credit facilities to the farmers would help potential progressive growers to adopt tunnel-farming and grow of-season vegetables, thus getting higher yield per acre.
Page(s):
153-160
DOI:
DOI not available
Published:
Journal: Sarhad Journal of Agriculture, Volume: 36, Issue: 1, Year: 2020
Keywords:
Productivity
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Tunnel farming
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Offseasonal tunnel farming
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Offseason vegetables
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