ABSTRACT
The North-Eastern region (NER) of India is a land of magnificent beauty, possessing undulating hills, rolling grasslands, cascading waterfalls, snaking rivers, terraced slopes and thrilling flora and fauna. India being a vast country with diverse and extreme agro-climatic conditions, the protected vegetables cultivation technology can be utilized for year round and off-season production of high value, low volume vegetables, crops production of virus free quality seedlings, quality hybrid seed production and as a tool for disease resistance breeding programs. Capsicum is cultivated in most parts of the world, especially in temperate regions of Central and South America and European countries, tropical and subtropical regions of Asian continent mainly in India and China. The protected cultivation of vegetable offers distinct advantage of quality, productivity and favorable market price to the growers. It increases their income in off- season as compared to normal season.
