Protected Cultivation Design and Layout - Dr. agr. Volker Kleinhenz

17 Pages·2010·0.48 MB·English

by  Dr. Volker Kleinhenz

Protected Cultivation
Design and Layout
Dr. Volker Kleinhenz
Foundation
30 Nethouses 1 Glasshouse 11 Polyhouses
 3990 m2/structure  3067 m2 (0.8 A)  4130 m2/structure
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29.6 A total 11.2 A total
 Cooling system
 7 Mat-cooled
 4 Ventilated
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Production type
 9 Production
 2 Nursery
Internal design
Nethouse
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Soil cultivation
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Drip fertigation

Overhead fogging (cooling)
system
Internal Design
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Access by labor & tractor
 Two entrances (doors)
 2-m workway at doors
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1.17-m distance
 Governed by structure
 57 Cultivation beds
 1.17-m distances
Dolly
Workway
Door
Internal design
Glass- and Polyhouses
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Soilless cultivation
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Computerized (pulse) fertigation
Door
Workway
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Mat-cooling and overhead-fogging system
Internal Design
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Resource-use maximization
 Maximum space utilization
 Horizontally
 One entrance only
 One 3-m walkway near door only
 Plant density
 Vertically
 Indeterminate crops
 Maximum time utilization
 Life-cycle (indeterminate crops)

Dolly
Internal design – High-wire system
Overview
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Indeterminate crops
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Main work processes
 Lining (tying) up
 Removal of side shoots
 At least weekly intervals
 Layering
 Bi-weekly intervals
 Leaf clipping
 Bi-weekly intervals
 Up to bottom-most truss
 Harvesting
 Daily
Internal design – High-wire system
Overseas
Internal design – High-wire system
FieldFresh ACE
Internal design – High-wire system
FieldFresh ACE

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Plant density
 29 double-rows @ 1.6-m distance
 3.8 plants/m2 (e.g. Germany: 2.6 plants/m2)
 15660 plants/polyhouse
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Indeterminate crops
 Tomato, capsicum, (cucumber, cucurbits)
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Cultivation period
 Continuously for ca. 11 months (Jun-Apr)
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Production period
 Continuously for ca. 10 months (Jul-Apr)
1.60 m
Equipment
Foundation &
drainage recycling system
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EurepGAP requirement
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“Mapal” troughs

“Plastro”
Equipment
Cultivation media & plant
support system
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Cocopeat growbags
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Twine
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Bobbins