Potentiality of protected cultivation in fruit crops: An overview

Abstract

Protected fruit cultivation has developed very quickly and widely and now it has become an important branch in fruit cultivation. It enables some control of wind velocity, moisture, temperature, mineral nutrients, light intensity, and atmospheric composition and has contributed and will continue to contribute much to a better understanding of growth factor requirements and inputs for improving crop productivity. A brief introduction, various structures of protected cultivation, characteristics of fruit crops for the protected cultivation and other information are summarised here.