Promotion of Capacity in Biocontrol for Sustainable Greenhouse Vegetable Production

Vegetables, together with soybean, provide most of the nutrient rich foods to a large number of people at risk of chronic undernutrition in the country

Cooperative farmers grow a wide variety of vegetables, including spinach, Chinese cabbage, red pepper, tomato, cucumber, radish, onion, lettuce, eggplant, and mushroom, both on farm and in a protected environment, namely greenhouses and plastic tunnels Data on the production of vegetables in national farm production in the country are not officially reported Using field level data on a sample of cooperative farms that received FAO emergency assistance to restore production in the wake of floods in 2016 and drought in 2017 it is estimated that about 128 700 ha of cropped area are under vegetables With an average yield of 18 tonnes / vegetables production in the country is estimated at 2 3 million tonnes annually.

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