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• Main Author: Castilla, Nicolás, (Author)
• Other Authors: Baeza, Esteban J., (Translator), Papadopoulos, Athanasios P., (Reviewer)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2013.
• Edition: 2nd edition.
• Subjects: Greenhouses.; Plastics in agriculture.; Agricultural Economics.; Plant Physiology and Biochemistry.; Plant Production.; Fertilizers and other Amendments.; Soil Water Management (Irrigation and Drainage), (Revised June 2002); Automation and Control.; Farm and Horticultural Structures.; Crop production.; Environmental control.; Fertilizers.; Irrigation.; Marketing.; Plant physiology.; Plant protection.; Production.; Protected cultivation.; Soilless culture.; Vegetable growing.; Electronic books.
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This book incorporates the experiences in mild-winter greenhouse production systems where the most successful solutions are those that integrate greenhouse design and environmental control with crop husbandry. The content is focused on plastic greenhouses for vegetable growing but includes cross ref...

Table of Contents:

• Protected Cultivation
• The External Climate
• The Greenhouse Climate
• The Plastic Greenhouse
• Greenhouse Heat Exchanges
• Crop Physiology : Photosynthesis, Growth, Development and Productivity
• Facilities and Active and Passive Climate Control Equipment : Low Temperature Management : Heating
• Management of High Temperatures : Cooling
• Air Movement in the Greenhouse : Carbon Dioxide Enrichment : Light Management
• The Root Medium : Soil and Substrates
• Irrigation and Fertilization
• Regulation and Control Systems : Computer Climate Management : Mechanization
• Plant Protection
• Economic and Environmental Analysis
• Postharvest
• Marketing
• Greenhouse Production Strategies.