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What is tunnel farming? how bummble bees are helpful in tunnel farming?

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Question added by Ahmed ali mirza
Date Posted: 2014/05/08
hesham nashat
by hesham nashat , Business Development Manager , AgrinServe

the tunnel garming is a mean of protected cultivation using a plastic sheet to cover the cultivated lines, 

it is used to grow spring (need hot climate) crops earlier than regular time of cultivation 

some of the crops are either partial parthenocarbic or not parthenocarbic (the flowers and male and females separatly) specially cucurbits , the use of bummbles bees increase the yeild20 to30% 

 

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