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Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2022 Double-cropping strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa Duch.) and lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) could be a sustainable alternative practice for diversified specialty crop growers.
Xuechun Wang +5 more
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Incorporating Water Harvesting into Plasticulture Production of Muskmelon [PDF]
HortTechnology, 1999 Competition for limited water supplies is increasing world wide. Especially hard hit are the irrigated crop production regions, such as the Lower Rio Grande Valley and the Winter Garden areas of south Texas. To develop production techniques for reducing supplemental water needs of vegetable crops, an ancient water harvesting ...
Frank J. Dainello +3 more
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Revista Brasileira de Engenharia Agrícola e Ambiental, 2005 As plantas infestadas são responsáveis por perdas significativas na produção do algodão a nível mundial, cujo controle é difícil e oneroso. Com o objetivo de se estimar custos de produção e analisar economicamente a eficiência da plasticultura e de ...
Francineuma P. de Arruda +4 more
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Stand Establishment in Plasticulture Systems [PDF]
HortTechnology, 1996 Plasticulture enables growers to optimize establishment of vegetable and fruit crops under nonoptimum conditions and in locations with short growing seasons. Generally, warm-season crops such as muskmelon, pepper, and tomato, are established from transplants to decrease the time to maturity in the field.
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Cover materials excluding Near Infrared radiation: what is the best strategy in mild climates? [PDF]
, 2009 Only about half of the energy that enters a greenhouse as sun radiation is in the wavelength range that is useful for photosynthesis (PAR, Photosynthetically Active Radiation).
Hemming, S. +2 more
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Revista Brasileira de Engenharia Agrícola e Ambiental, 2010 Este trabalho propôs avaliar a influência das malhas de sombreamento (termorrefletora) instaladas externa e internamente em ambiente protegido coberto com polietileno de baixa densidade (PEBD), cultivado com gérbera, na radiação solar global (Qg) e nos ...
Cristiane Guiselini +3 more
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High Tunnel Production of Tomatoes for Season Extension in Southeast Alabama
Horticulturae, 2020 A series of experiments was conducted to evaluate variety selection and planting date for spring and fall season extension of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L. (syn.: Lycoperisicon esculentum Mill.)) production in high tunnels in southeast Alabama.
Bradley Reeder +7 more
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Integration of Halosulfuron and Anaerobic Soil Disinfestation for Weed Control in Tomato
HortTechnology, 2022 Anaerobic soil disinfestation (ASD) is a preplant pest management technique that involves amending the soil with a labile carbon source, irrigating the soil to stimulate decomposition, and then covering the soil with polyethylene film (polyfilm) to limit
Gursewak Singh +3 more
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Design and development of FRP mobile fish vending trolley for hygienic fish marketing [PDF]
, 2017 A mobile fish vending trolley has been designed and developed by Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) - All India Coordinated Research Project on Plasticulture Engineering and Technology (AICRP on PET) centre at ICAR-Central Institute of ...
Anantharaja, K. +4 more
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HortTechnology, 2019 Although agricultural plastic mulches can have significant horticultural benefits for specialty crops such as strawberry (Fragaria ×ananassa), there can also be significant economic and environmental costs.
Jessica R. Goldberger +2 more
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