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Factors Related to the Adoption of Good Agrarian Practices (GAP) in Plastic Covered Horticulture of Southeastern Spain [PDF]

The adoption by farmers of Good Agrarian Practices (GAP), that favouring the environment and assure food quality and safety, is being a frequent fact. Considering the plastic covered horticulture, these kind of practices can be of different nature: use ...
Bertuglia, Adriana, Calatrava-Requena, Javier   +1 more
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Current use of peat, plastic and fertiliser inputs in organic horticultural and arable crops across Europe [PDF]

, 2018
The use of contentious inputs linked to plant protection, and the use of peat, plastic and fertilisers used in growing have been mapped in selected organically produced crops in 10 countries across Europe.
Caceres, Rafaela, Cirvilleri, Gabriella, de Cara, Manuel, Katsoulas, Nikolaos, Kir, Alev, Knebel, Lucas, Løes, Anne-Kristin, Malinska, Krystyna, Oudshoorn, Frank, Raskin, Ben, Rayns, Francis, Schmutz, Ulrich, Valleix, Sophie   +12 more
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Agricultural Greenhouse Extraction Based on Multi-Scale Feature Fusion and GF-2 Remote Sensing Imagery

Remote Sensing
Accurate extraction of plastic greenhouses from high-resolution remote sensing imagery is essential for agricultural resource management and facility-based crop monitoring.
Yuguang Chang, Xiaoyu Yu, Xu Yang, Zhengchao Chen, Pan Chen, Xuan Yang, Yongqing Bai   +6 more
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Water use efficiency of tomatoes - in greenhouses and hydroponics [PDF]

Massive amounts of water are required for the production of our food, varying from several cubic metres per kilogram of beef to as low as 4 litres per kilogram for tomatoes grown in high-tech glasshouses.
Nederhoff, E.M., Stanghellini, C.
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Is greenhouse tomato production environmentally and economically sustainable in the long term? Evidence from life cycle and economic analyses in Northwest China

Cleaner Environmental Systems
The environmental impacts of greenhouse vegetable production have garnered increasing attention, while the long-term economic and environmental sustainability of these systems remains largely unquantified.
Xinjing Wang, Mingke Zhang, Xiaoqin Wang, Congcong Duan, Kuok Ho Daniel Tang, Huiqi Yu, Yamin Peng, Dongli Liang, Shuo Sun   +8 more
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Simulation Model Construction of Plant Height and Leaf Area Index Based on the Overground Weight of Greenhouse Tomato: Device Development and Application

Horticulturae
Plant height and leaf area index (LAI) are crucial growth indicators that reflect the growth status of tomatoes in greenhouses, enabling accurate determinations to effectively estimate crop transpiration and formulate irrigation strategies for reducing ...
Shenbo Guo, Letian Wu, Xinwei Cao, Xiaoli Sun, Yanfei Cao, Yuhan Li, Huifeng Shi   +6 more
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Soil Heating Significantly Increases Leaf Magnesium Concentration and Fruit Yield in Tomatoes Produced in a Plastic Greenhouse During Winter

Agronomy
Magnesium (Mg) deficiency frequently occurs in tomato leaves grown in plastic greenhouses during winter in northern China. In this study, field experiments were conducted to test the effects of soil temperature and the potassium (K) fertilizer ...
Haofeng Lv, Jiaming Luan, Yunjie Guo, Jijie Liang, Xiangjun Li, Xiupeng Sun, Weiwei Zhou, Bin Liang   +7 more
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Processed Chili Peppers for Export Markets: A Capital Budgeting Study on the AgroFood Company [PDF]

The AgroFood Company, which currently exports fresh chili peppers to European clients, desires to expand the product mix offered. The company, as it expands its production of fresh peppers for export, has an increasing supply of grade 2 peppers that are ...
Hahn, David E., Semida, Wael M., Shelaby, Ayman A., Warnock, Daniel F.   +3 more
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Greenhouse engineering: New technologies and approaches [PDF]

Firstly, this article discusses the greenhouse engineering situation in three geographic areas which are relevant in the field of protected cultivation: Northern Asia, The Netherlands and the Mediterranean.
Castilla, N., Henten, E.J., van, Montero, J.I., Son, J.E.   +3 more
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Research collaboration between China and Denmark for development of systemic approaches to agro-ecological pest management without pesticides with focus on vegetable, fruit and berry crops. Proceedings and recommendations from two network workshops [PDF]

, 2013
This report is the result of a network project which was established to discuss the potential for collaboration on development of systemic approaches to pest management without pesticides between Chinese and Danish researchers.
Andreasen, Lise, Eilenberg, Jørgen, Enkegaard, Annie, Guo, Yanbin, Halberg, Niels, Korsgaard, Maren, Langer, Vibeke, Liu, Yunhui, Munk, Lisa, Qiao, Yuhui, Ravnskov, Sabine, Sigsgaard, Lene, Steenberg, Tove, Wang, Jianwu, Wu, Wenliang, Zhang, Long, Zhu, Zengrong   +16 more
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