ABSTRACT
Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) are the practices that address environmental, economic and social sustainability for on-farm processes and result in safe and quality food and non-food agricultural products. GAP primarily involve the application of good management practices to maintain the consumer confidence in food quality and food safety by taking into account the optimal use of inputs to ensure worker health and minimizing detrimental environmental impacts on farming operations. Globally connecting farmers and brand owners in the production and marketing of safe food to provide reassurance for consumers. Intensive cultivation of crops as followed under protected culture requires some set of GAP protocols as protected cultivation is generally involved in excessive use of chemicals since the stakes are high due to intensive inputs and high expectations on quality front. The phenomenon of evaporative cooling helps in lowering temperature and vapour pressure deficit hence, plays important role to achieve desirably lower temperature inside protected structure compared to the outside air temperature.
