Plasticulture refers to the use of plastics in agriculture for irrigation, plant protection, and post-harvest activities. It offers many advantages such as conserving water by 30-70%, increasing crop yields by 30-100%, reducing fertilizer and labor costs for weed control, enabling cultivation in saline soils and with brackish water, improving production on rough fields, and allowing crop cultivation and storage even in adverse weather conditions through techniques like drip irrigation, greenhouses, and net houses.

1. AGRICULTURE with PLASTICULTURE
PREFACE:
The application of polythene in different kind of agricultural purposes viz.
irrigation, plant protection and post harvest activities is called the plasticulture.
SIGNIFICANCE:
It offers many advantages in many cases, like water conservation, moisture
conservation, raising of production power and superiority of the crops, etc. even
crop cultivation and well storage in an adverse weather has become possible. Drip
irrigation, green house, wrapping cum shedding, low tunnel, net house etc.
advantages are got by plasticulture.
Apart from aboves, other advantages are as follows.
# Yield goes up 30%-100% at a crop ratio.
# Water become conserved at a range of 30%-70%
# 50% fertilizing is saved.
# Weed control by labour become less expensive.
# Farming become possible in the saline soil.
# Brackish water become suitable for irrigation.
# Rough fields become suitable for cultivation.
# Crop growing power become raised.