Plastic products in plant production and protection help farmers increase crop production,
enhance food quality, and reduce global water use and their environmental footprint …

The rapid change of climate, population explosion, and reduction of arable lands are calling
for new approaches to ensure sustainable agriculture and food supply for the future …

This work is motivated by the difficulty of cultivating crops in horticulture greenhouses under
hot and arid climate conditions. The main challenge is to provide a suitable greenhouse …

Due to huge demand on water resources and subsequently food supply, many new trends in
the farming innovative methods which include a complex agricultural production system …

Intensive agriculture is a farming system characterised by a large use of inputs, causing a
large pressure on the environment. As peculiar and efficient example of intensive agriculture …

Reducing the energy demand and dependency on fossil fuels is crucial for improving the
sustainability of greenhouses, which are the most energy intensive systems in the …

Agrivoltaic systems (a combination of agricultural crop production and photovoltaics (PV) on
the same land) have an increasing interest. Realizing this upcoming technology raises still …

Conventional agriculture that uses extensive tillage without organic inputs to soils can cause
a degradation in soil quality. The improvement of soil organic matter (SOM) content can be …

The standard FAO methodology for the determination of crop water requirements uses the
product of reference evapotranspiration (ET o) and crop coefficient values. This …

Almería, in southeastern Spain, generates some 1,086,261 tyear− 1 (fresh weight) of
greenhouse crop (Cucurbita pepo L., Cucumis sativus L., Solanum melongena L., Solanum …