Summer crops are a group of agricultural products that all three stages of planting, growing and harvesting are in the warm season of the year. Benefit from the benefits of building a greenhouse.

Summer crops are a group of agricultural products that all three stages of planting, growing and harvesting are in the warm season of the year. The name of these products also goes back to Saif (meaning summer in Arabic).

These days, some farmers build greenhouses for summer crops and cultivate them in the cold seasons of the year. If you want to know the benefits of building a greenhouse, then stay with us until the end of this article.

Construction of a summer greenhouse

With the definition we provided above, you may also mistakenly think that any product with these features is included in the summer category.

But in completing this definition, it is better to mention the main feature of summer products, which is their belonging to the category of fruits. Here, the meaning of fruit is any product resulting from the change of the flower state of plants into edible substances.

In other words, summer fruits are summer fruits, not vegetables including stems, roots or leaves of plants. Considering the increasing need of people for these products and their importance in the household food basket, the necessity of growing and supplying them to the market in all seasons of the year will become more apparent.

So, farmers in different regions of Iran and even in the cold season, by simulating the favorable climate of summer crops, cultivate them and meet the needs of the people.

Advantages of building a greenhouse for growing summer crops

Building a greenhouse with the purpose of growing summer crops has the following advantages:

Change of cropping season

The most important advantage of building summer greenhouses in different parts of Iran is changing the growing season and removing the restrictions that exist in this field.

In simpler terms, farmers in the greenhouse environment try to create a suitable environment for the growth of plants by using equipment such as a heating system or soil moisture control. With this, it is even possible to grow summer vegetables in the cold of winter and under the cover of the greenhouse.

High productivity

Plants are sensitive organisms that may suffer from a decline in growth and quality of the final product by changing the appropriate conditions for their growth, even temporarily. It is very difficult to control the ideal conditions in conventional agriculture, and sometimes it is impossible to fight against risks such as storms or sudden warming.

But the farmers in the greenhouse, using the sensors and equipment they have, can remove all possible threats and keep the right conditions constant throughout the growing period. The result of this work is higher productivity and better product quality.

Also, in some cultivation methods, such as hydroponics, where plants are placed in trays or suitable tanks in water, the density of plants is higher than soil agriculture. As a result, the amount of products produced by these types of greenhouses will be higher.

reimbursement

In traditional open-air farming, risks such as pest attack and others threaten the crop harvest. In these cases, in addition to the labors of farmers for several months, their capital is also lost.

But in greenhouse cultivation, despite the higher cost of building a greenhouse, the possibility of comprehensive control of plant growth and guaranteeing the harvest of crops will compensate for the cost of building a greenhouse in a short time.