**3. Container growing of vegetable crops**

Soilless culture in bags, pots, or troughs with a lightweight medium, *i.e.,* cocopeat is the simplest, most economical, and easiest to manage of all soilless systems. There are different types of containers are available, *i.e.,* long wooden troughs in which one or two rows of plants are grown, polyethylene bags, or rigid plastic pots containing one to three plants. In the bag or pot system, the solution is not recirculated. The most common types of media used in containerized systems of soilless culture are peat-lite, or a mixture of bark and wood chips. Bag or pot systems using bark chips or peat-lite are in common use [9]. Drain holes should be provided in the base of the containers to drain out any excess water or flush out any excess nutrient solution from the container.
