| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
1. -- Protected cultivation: technology, constraints, and its global status -- 2. -- Classification and suitability of protected structures -- 3. -- Design and construction of greenhouse structures -- 4. -- Soilless cultivation techniques in protected structures -- 5. -- Greenhouse utilization for vegetable cultivation -- 6. -- Effect of greenhouse microclimate on crop performance -- 7. -- Irrigation and fertigation systems for protected cultivation -- 8. -- Recent advances in management of diseases and pests of common occurrence under protected cultivation -- 9. -- Insect-pests and diseases in greenhouse cultivation and their biological control -- 10. -- Conventional and recent approaches of integrated pest management in greenhouse cultivation -- 11. -- Geometric and aerodynamic characterization of insect-proof screens used in greenhouses: aerodynamic models -- 12. -- Ventilation models in greenhouses -- 13. -- Greenhouse climate control for flower regulation in ornamental crops -- 14. -- Smart farming technologies for protected cultivation -- 15. -- Economic feasibility, status, and future prospects of protected cultivation |
| Summary |
"Safeguarding crop plants from the harmful effects of climate change, from environmentally toxic agricultural chemicals, and from crop pests and crop diseases, protected cultivation is the need of the hour for improving crop growth conditions. This new volume addresses this need by presenting valuable research on the components of protected cultivation, including climate control, modeling, automation, and economics. The volume offers comprehensive coverage of the many aspects of protected crop cultivation, including selecting site-specific appropriate protected structures design, construction, and suitability of structures adoption of improved crop cultivation techniques (shifting from conventional to modern soilless cultivation approaches) cropping sequence of vegetable crops irrigation and fertigation automation climate monitoring and management insect-pests and diseases of common occurrence and their management (including biological control under protected cultivation, selection, and optimization of insect-proof screens for greenhouses) modeling greenhouse micro-climate/environment (such as ventilation rate) economic analysis of protected cultivation The important information presented in this volume will be valuable for farming professionals, faculty and students in agricultural science, agricultural researchers and engineers, as well as for those involved in horticulture and floriculture."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Issued also in print format |
| Subject |
Greenhouse management.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Singh, Mahesh Chand, editor.
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Sharma, K. K. (Plant pathologist), editor.
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| LC no. |
2023037898 |
| ISBN |
9781003402596 |
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1003402593 |
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