Continuous rising population is necessitating the maximization of food production per unit area i.e. productivity. There has been already well known different advance methods like aquaponics, nutrient film technique (NFT), aeroponics, etc. but they do not have that much good land utilization. So, to conciliate this land problem vertical farming was introduced. It utilizes the vertical unused space which or else left unused in other farming systems. This can also facilitates the peoples to get the fresh cut vegetables regularly. Moreover, nowadays peoples are showing their keen interest towards their health and to meet their healthy food requirements, salad vegetables are the best options as due to nutritional values. The vegetables have high number of health benefits. They are rich sources of minerals, vitamins and various bioflavonoids which are essential for the growth and development of human beings. The vegetables can also be eaten raw in form of salad. The vegetables are also suited best under this structure as these are short duration and provides high net returns. These can be grown by using various growing substrates viz. perlite, coco-peat, vermiculite etc. to enable fast growing and high yield.
Chilli (Capsicum annuum L.) is probably one of the commercial and important vegetable crop after tomato at the global level. In India, Chilli is cultivated on an area of 3.76 lakh hectares with a production of 3.78 lakh tonnes and productivity of 10.02 tonnes per hectare (NHB, 2019). Since the productivity of the crop is low there is a demand for development of new varieties and hybrids with high productivity. Genetic divergence and extent of genetic variability are important for the genetic improvement of any crop in the germplasm stock. Magnitude of genetic variability present in the germplasm is always proportional to the improvement in any crop. Greater the chances of desirable genotypes and cultivars, greater is the variability in the population. Screening of available germplasm helps to estimate the variation and diversity and also to classify and select superior parents for hybridization purposes. The degree of genetic divergence can be calculated by using the Multivariate Analysis from Mahalanobis D 2 , which is as an important method for determining the relative contribution of different characters to total divergence in crops that are often cross-pollinated.
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