Objective
The greenhouse industry, although new compared to traditional agriculture, has been supported heavily in research and other support measures. A number of EU and national projects around Europe deal with plant breeding in protected horticulture and greenhouse management, providing a wealth of research results. An earlier EU project (MACQU) has addressed issues such as humidity, nutrients and water management with respect to environmental impact and quality of produce. It has also developed an advanced complete system (software and hardware) which allows the in-field implementation of intelligent management approaches effectively and at low cost.
The main objective of this proposal is to verify but also demonstrate, under commercial conditions, the advantages of the results achieved by previous research work. This shall be carried out by a demonstration of the effectiveness of the management system to implement research results and expert grower's goals. Research results for immediate exploitation mainly concern:
a) management of irrigation and nutrients supply to minimize effluents, water use and cost,
b) intelligent control of humidity to minimize infection and associated chemicals,
c) The management of energy inputs according to plant heat demand to reduce heating and
d) quality relations to climate and nutrient concentration and also the ability of the system to incorporate grower's quality targets into the management.
This project is justified because European GH production has a high capital investment and faces sharp competition by low price imports. A solution is to strengthen competitiveness by 'improving the quality of produce', while reducing cost through better 'management'.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences computer and information sciences software
- engineering and technology civil engineering water engineering irrigation
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries agriculture horticulture
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries agriculture agronomy plant breeding
- engineering and technology environmental engineering natural resources management water management
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