The greenhouse cultivation is an agro-system that presents important productive advantages in comparison with unprotected or open-air cultivation. A greenhouse protects crops inside from greenhouse protects crops indeed from extreme temperatures, high winds, heavy rains, destructive storms, and insects and diseases. The aim of this book is to provide in depth knowledge of the greenhouse technology and its applications to students and other readers about the greenhouse cultivation. The book explains about the rationale for the protected cultivation, current practices and scope of this technology. The basic concepts, details of constituents of greenhouse environment and their effects on crop growth, details of various types of greenhouses and the circumstances in which they are used are enumerated. The design details, the materials used for the constructions and their characteristics and the details of heating and cooling of the greenhouses are given. The root media, soil-water-plant relationships, various instrumentation and automations used in greenhouse cultivation, the insects and pests of the crops commonly grown in greenhouses and important aspect of nutrient management for the greenhouse crops are discussed in the books. In addition to above, a numbers of solved examples are included for the practices of the students. A number of figures and tables are included in every chapter for the easy understanding of the readers.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ajay K. Sharma
Dr. Ajay K. Sharma is presently Associate Professor, Farm Machinery and Technology and Engineering, Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India. He Obtained his Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, West Bengal, India in 1998. His special interest includes controlled environment agriculture, tillage, traction, agricultural machinery and management. He has received many awards/honors from various international organization, which include Journal of International Society for Terrain Vehicle Systems. He is fellow and member of many professional societies. He has more than 50 research papers to his credit. Dr. Sharma has wide research and teaching experience at both national and international institutions.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Vilas M. Salokhe
Dr. Vilas M. Salokhe is presently a full Professor and Coordinator of the Agricultural Systems and Engineering Program, School of Environment, Resources and Development, Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok, Thailand. he obtained his D. Eng. from AIT in 1996. He has special interest in protected cultivation, agricultural machinery, agricultural Ssytems, ergonomics, and terramechanics. He has received 19 awards/honors and distinctions from various international organizations. He is a member of many professional societies and also hold key positions in some of them. He is Foundation Member of Currently President of Asian Association for Agricultural Engineering (AAAE). He is also Editor of the "An International Journal" published by the AAAE. He has edited 16 proceedings of the international conferences and seminars, has published 4 reports, 102 papers in international referred journals, 91 in conference proceedings and presented 56 papers in conferences. Prof. Salokhe has handled 33 sponsored research projects funded by agencies like EU, CIDA, FAO, German Research Grant, etc. and guided 75 masters and 17 doctoral students.
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