NEW TECHNOLOGIES FOR PROTECTED CULTIVATIONS TO FACE ENVIRONMENTAL CONSTRAINTS AND TO MEET CONSUMER'S REQUIREMENTS
From now on, the growers have to adopt a new password that is "sustainability" instead of the traditional and absolute one "yield". In other words, the production strategies, in addition to technological and economical efficiency, have to be environmental friendly. This last objective may be reached minimizing the use of unrenewable resources and any output of chemicals and waste materials.
Actual processes and outcoming products have to be carefully evaluated from many points of view. Once singled out the weak points of the whole system, any phase and any device has to be evaluated for its usefulness to remove the system weaknesses and change it to a strong point. By now these evaluations have to be referred to a global horizon, without looking at one's niche, or considering the nursery as a kitchen garden.
DOI: 10.17660/ActaHortic.1994.361.1
https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.1994.361.1