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- Title
Vegetable Production in PFALs: Control of Micro-Environmental Factors, Principal Components and Automated Systems.
- Authors
Bantis, Filippos; Chatzigeorgiou, Ioanna; Sismanis, Michail; Ntinas, Georgios K.; Koukounaras, Athanasios
- Abstract
Plant factories with artificial lighting (PFALs) are indoor crop production systems aiming at the growth of high-value products in terms of yield and quality, while maximizing resource use efficiency. The emergence of PFALs opened a new world for crop production and offered an option to tackle problems related to climate change, land availability, and urban/peri-urban farming. This was made possible upon major technological advancements and extensive research in the field of controlled environment agriculture, which paved the way for the establishment of such cost-efficient and climate-unaffected modules of vegetable and other crops' production. In the present review, we have examined the recent research achievements regarding the micro-environmental factors, the principal components, as well as the automated systems used for plant production in PFALs. Ultimately, we provide the reader with a number of future perspectives that can be considered for indoors cultivation in the following years.
- Subjects
AGRICULTURAL productivity; TECHNOLOGICAL innovations; AGRICULTURE; VERTICAL farming; URBAN agriculture; CLIMATE change
- Publication
Agriculture; Basel, 2024, Vol 14, Issue 4, p642
- ISSN
2077-0472
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/agriculture14040642