Factors determining a successful socioeconomic introduction of horticulture in foreign countries - Academic Consultancy Training Report [PDF]
Course: Academic Consultancy Training (YMC 60809) Project: Sustainable development of greenhouse horticulture in developing countries (756) Commissioner: Wageningen UR Greenhouse Horticulture Contact person: Ir. C.J.M. van der Lans Coach: Dr. Ir.
Busscher, N. +6 more
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LeTra: a leaf tracking workflow based on convolutional neural networks and intersection over union
Plant MethodsBackground The study of plant photosynthesis is essential for productivity and yield. Thanks to the development of high-throughput phenotyping (HTP) facilities, based on chlorophyll fluorescence imaging, photosynthetic traits can be measured in a ...
Federico Jurado-Ruiz +5 more
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Environmental Horticulture Management Certificate: A Path to Career Opportunities and Advancement
EDISFlorida is one of the top-producing states in the environmental horticulture industry (“green industry”), which includes garden centers as well as greenhouse, nursery, and landscape operations. Although, the industry is not without its challenges.
Kimberly A. Moore, Kathleen Ujvari
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Urban Horticulture, from Local Initiatives to Global Success Stories
HortTechnology, 2019 Urban horticulture describes economically viable horticultural production activities conducted in a city or suburb. It is a growing segment of horticulture in the United States as well as in developing countries, where the enormous growth of megalopolis ...
Roland Ebel +6 more
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Prospects for the agricultural sector in the Netherlands, Economic and technological explorations [PDF]
, 2009 The Dutch agricultural sector is greatly influenced by the global economy; the sector is very much focused on international trade. Every year, the agricultural sector generates an extensive positive export balance of over €20 billion (€23 billion in 2007)
Leenstra, F.R., Silvis, H.J.
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Green networks: Innovative capacity of SMEs in the Dutch greenhouse horticulture industry
Apstract: Applied Studies in Agribusiness and Commerce, 2012 The Dutch greenhouse horticulture industry is characterized by world leadership in high-tech innovation. The dynamics of this playing field are innovation in production systems and automation, reduction in energy consumption and sharing limited space ...
Henk J. Schout, Saskia J.M. Harkema
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Mitigating the water footprint of export cut flowers from the Lake Naivasha Basin, Kenya [PDF]
, 2012 Kenya’s cut-flower industry has been praised as an economic success as it\ud contributed an annual average of US$ 141 million foreign exchange (7% of Kenyan export value) over the period 1996–2005 and about US$ 352 million in 2005 alone.
Becht, R. +2 more
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The Use of Anaerobic Digestate for Greenhouse Horticulture
AgronomyAgricultural crop production practices are being developed for organic, sustainable, and environmentally friendly farming systems. Developing efficient and resourceful crop fertilizers is significantly important for future agriculture.
Julė Jankauskienė +2 more
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Agronomy, 2018 Increasing the ability to investigate plant functions and structure through non-invasive methods with high accuracy has become a major target in plant breeding and precision agriculture.
Pasquale Tripodi +3 more
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Steering of fogging: control of humidity: temperature or transpiration [PDF]
, 2008 Fogging systems are increasingly used to cool greenhouses and prevent water stress. More recently, fogging systems are applied also in relatively low radiation environments (such as The Netherlands), for a better control of product quality than ...
Kempkes, F.L.K., Stanghellini, C.
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