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Tunnel House

Tunnel houses are miniature greenhouses designed for raising vegetable seedlings and cultivating high-value crops, enhancing photosynthesis and protecting plants from adverse weather. They are inexpensive, easy to construct, and can lead to faster growth and higher yields, with seedlings ready 5-7 days earlier than outside conditions. Construction involves selecting a suitable site, using specific materials, and ensuring proper ventilation and maintenance during the growing process.

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Tunnel House

Tunnel houses are miniature greenhouses designed for raising vegetable seedlings and cultivating high-value crops, enhancing photosynthesis and protecting plants from adverse weather. They are inexpensive, easy to construct, and can lead to faster growth and higher yields, with seedlings ready 5-7 days earlier than outside conditions. Construction involves selecting a suitable site, using specific materials, and ensuring proper ventilation and maintenance during the growing process.

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TUNNEL HOUSE

Tunnel house
• Miniature green house structures designed to raise
vegetable seedlings or cultivation of low volume high
value row crops.
• Help in entrapment of carbon dioxide, thereby enhancing
photosynthetic activities of plant that help to increase
yield.
• Protect the plants from high wind, rainfall, frost and snow.
• Inexpensive and are easy to erect and dismantle.
• Low tunnel greenhouse is normally built for one cropping
season.
• Advantages
– Used for faster and healthier growth of vegetable
seedlings
– Maintain optimum temperature for plant growth
during cold night
– Increases photosynthetic activity of plant and
ultimately growth and yield
– Recorded 15 – 30% more germination under low
tunnel as compared to outside condition.
– Seedlings get ready 5 – 7 days earlier than outside
condition
– Used for cultivation of high value crops during winter
– Protection against extreme climate condition i.e. wind
and rain
Construction of tunnel house
• Site selection should be such that it should be
free from shade of building or trees.
• Should be free from water stagnation.
• Structural materials like 6mm plain rod and UV
film of 200 micron should be used.
• 6mm rod should be cut at 2.4m length and
bend to semi circular shape for each structural
element.
• UV film of 200 micron should be used as
cladding material.
Construction of tunnel house
• Nursery bed of 4.5m x 1m size should be
prepared with FYM (farm yard manure) and
other soil amendments as per requirement
and seeds are sown in lines & watering is
done.
• Hoop elements are placed over bed at 0.75m
spacing. 7 number of elements are required
for above size.
Construction of tunnel house
• UV film is spread over structural elements of
low tunnel such that there should not be any
shagging.
• Extreme ends of UV film should be tied to
wooden stacks driven into ground.
• There should be proper operation of low
tunnel.
• At night, low tunnel should be closed from all
sides.
Construction of tunnel house
• But after germination,
longitudinal side UV film
should be lifted up to 15 – 20
cm for ventilation and
temperature control without
loosening film from stake
end.
• Planting, fertilizer application,
pesticides, overhead
irrigation and harvesting can
be done in normal way by
lifting film on sides.

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