Shimla's hotels, cafés and restaurants cook with lettuce, broccoli, cherry tomatoes and coloured capsicum, and NABARD's plan for the district says polyhouse vegetable growing is booming on tourist demand. A polyhouse farm near the town can supply them fresh.
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This farm grows salad and exotic vegetables in polyhouses, which are frames covered in plastic sheet that keep out rain, hail and cold. Typical crops are lettuce, broccoli, cherry tomatoes, coloured capsicum, zucchini and herbs, picked to order and delivered fresh to kitchens.
NABARD's 2023-24 credit plan for Shimla says high-value and off-season vegetable farming under polyhouses is booming because tourists drive rising demand for exotic vegetables, and it urges local farmer groups to enter this business. Shimla town and nearby Kufri and Mashobra have many hotels and restaurants that need these vegetables through the tourist season, and a farm close to the town can deliver fresher produce than trucks from the plains.
You need a sunny plot, a sturdy polyhouse built for snow and wind, drip irrigation and a rainwater tank. Water is short in the Shimla hills, and NABARD's plan calls small water-harvesting tanks and ponds urgent. Learn polyhouse growing from the state horticulture department before you build. The hard part is pests and disease in a closed house, slow growth in winter, and hotel buyers who want the same quantity every week, so sow in small batches.
Sell by visiting hotel chefs and restaurant owners in Shimla, and supply grocers and cafés around the Mall Road.
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