Greenhouse Technology and Management

For horticulturists, field technicians, specialists in greenhouse cultivation, and students, Castilla (horticulture, Institute for Agricultural Research and Training, Spain) explores current technologies and management practices in general greenhouse production, with an emphasis on plastic greenhouses and vegetable growing and examples from Europe. He describes the natural greenhouse microclimate in the context of managing greenhouse systems like ventilation, cooling, heating, carbon dioxide enrichment, light management, crop physiology, and greenhouse design and construction criteria, then other issues of management, such as irrigation and fertilization, soil and substrate cultivation, plant protection, regulation, economic analysis, environmental impact, postharvest, production strategies, and marketing. The volume is a translation of the second edition of the Spanish volume Invernaderos de Plastico: Tecnologia y Manejo and has been translated by agricultural engineer Esteban J. Baeza. Distributed in the US by Stylus Publishing. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)