Abstract
Protective cultivation is a cropping technique in which the climate around the plant is modified in part or whole to meet the plant’s requirement for the appearance of its output potential. For the study, an ultimate sample of 50 respondents was randomly selected from four villages in Jaipur district, which comprises 25 polyhouses and 25 open field cucumber cultivators. CACP cost concept was used in analyses of costs and returns pattern. Results showed that cucumber cost of cultivation in polyhouses and open fields was Rs 289815.10 and Rs 93726.24 per acre, respectively, while the gross return was Rs 543509.68 and Rs 137301.08 per acre. The net return of cultivation was Rs 253694.58 and Rs 43574.84 per acre under respective cultivation. In polyhouse cucumber cultivation, higher B-C ratio (1.88) was observed in comparison to open field cultivation (1.46) which showed that former was more profitable than latter. Family labor use in polyhouse was found relatively low in comparison to open field condition.
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