Strategic Crop and Greenhouse Management in Mild Winter Climate Areas
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2004Abstract
In the last decades, the increase of protected cultivation in glasshouses has been very scarce as compared with the large spread of low-cost plastic greenhouses around the world. The greenhouse area in northern Europe has been almost stable, while protected cultivation expanded enormously in the Mediterranean basin, enhanced by the enlarging demand of vegetables for the export and domestic markets, resulting from economic development. In the past, the production strategies in the Mediterranean greenhouse industries have been mainly related with the adaptation of the crops to a suboptimal environment, due to the limited greenhouse climate control. There is now a general trend to better equipped greenhouses with improved climate management, in order to increase product quality. Achieving an economic compromise between the higher costs of improved greenhouses and their increased agronomic production are requiring different solutions, according to the local technical and socio-economic con...
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Greenhouse microclimate
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