International Journal of Horticulture, 2024, Vol.14, No.4, 223-236 http://hortherbpublisher.com/index.php/ijh 226 Figure 1 Education level of respondent in Godawari, Lalitpur (Source: Field survey (2023)) Table 1 Total land of respondent in Godawari, Lalitpur Land (in hector) Minimum Maximum Sum Mean Total land holding 0.101 1.730 26.36 0.376 Land under tomato cultivation 0.050 1.272 19.28 0.275 Source: Field survey (2023) 3.4 Tomato cultivation Most of the farmers cultivate tomatoes in poly houses because of frost problems in this area with holding 77% in this category. A total of 16% of the farmers cultivate tomato in both polyhouses and open field and only 7% farmers cultivate tomato in open field. Out of a total 70 households only 5.7 % farmers did not have polyhouses whereas 94.3 % of them cultivate tomatoes in polyhouses. Mostly tomato cultivation was done in both in Magh-Falgun with 80% cultivation. Out of total, 17.1% farmers cultivate tomato Chaitra-Baisakh and 2.8% farmers only in Baisakh-Jestha. Total 62.9 % of farmers are involved in commercial cultivation of tomato for selling purpose followed by 32.9 % of farmers cultivate tomato for both home consumption and selling purpose and 4.3% of farmers cultivate tomato for only home consumption purpose. The study revealed that 42.9 percent of the respondents had experience of tomato farming from 1 to 3 years whereas 35.7 percent had experience of 4 to 7 years. Similarly, 12 percent had experience of 7 to 10 years and 3 percent had more than 10 years of experience on commercial tomato farming. 3.4.1 Number of polyhouses Study revealed that the number of polyhouses of individual farmers in Godawari municipality Lalitpur ranges from 1 to 100 with the mean of 16.12 and total sum of 66 households were 1064 (Table 2). Table 2 Number of poly houses in farmers field in Godawari, Lalitpur Polyhouses Minimum Maximum Mean Sum Number of polyhouses 1 100 16.12 1064 Source: Field survey (2023)
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