Question

Define off-seasonal vegetable farming.

Answer 1

Answer:

Cultivation of fresh vegetables after or before their normal season is called as off season vegetable cultivation, which means cultivation of crop outside their regular cropping calendar i.e. when the supply is low and prices are high.

Answer 2

Answer & Explanation:

Off-season (also called counter-season) vegetable cultivation is the growing of vegetables under adverse climatic or economic conditions. The objective is to produce and supply vegetables to the market during their lean period of supply.

Advantages:-

The farmers can learn specific techniques of vegetable production.

• The farmers can develop confidence and make vegetable production as their main profession.
• The farmers can get higher profits from off-season production.
• The consumers can get fresh vegetables during off-season.

• Sometimes it is possible to export fresh vegetables and earn foreign currency.
• It creates employment for farm laborers all the year round.

Disadvantages:-  

• It requires highly specialized techniques of vegetable production.
• Sometimes it becomes a risky operation due to possibility of incidence of diseases and pests.
• It needs very regular supervision and follows up from the government agencies concerned.
• It is possible on a commercial scale only in areas where marketing is not a problem.
• It may be a source of pollution.