About Lesson
High value cash crops:
- High value medicinal or aromatic plants are not only conserved to maintain bio-diversity and natural resources but they can provide a source of income to rural people.
- Leaves, fruit or bark of HVC can be collected and sold.
- Eg: Seed production, Broom grass
Factors of low productivity of HVC
- Use of low productive cultivars seedlings and root stocks
- Poor shallow soil with low WHC.
- Lack of irrigation facilities.
- Lack of basic infrastructures.
- Disease pests