This paper examines an emerging economy in terms of the correlation between poverty and greenhouse development as a tool contributing to higher returns of individual households that can be applied in the socio-economic system as a whole to address underdevelopment. Farming acts both as production and consumption factor. Favorable climatic and technical conditions for conducting this type of economic activity stimulate theoretical and practical scientific interest in the problem. The research target is farming as a type of economic activity, an integral element of a national economic complex. The subject of the study is greenhouse farming as a factor of the socio-economic system that affects living standards of the population. The research methodology is based on universally recognized systems concepts and phenomenological principles of scientific investigation, mathematical calculations and software data processing. The findings of this study demonstrate a high dependence of private subsidiary farms as greenhouses on the country’s population employment fluctuations. The paper presents an economic model that reflects the dependence of the unemployment poverty on factors of agricultural production, household structure and total household returns. The conducted research revealed a close relationship between intensified greenhouse farming with the level of poverty in the country.