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It was not that easy to find material on covered crops that fitted this book. There is much literature on greenhouses with climate control but little on the simple tunnelsthat would be helpful in developing countries. A good introduction, without literature but with websites, was provided by Carvajal Ortiz (2003). He mentions more yields, lower production costs, better prices, quality, lower use of water, early harvest and pest and disease control among the rationales and goals of indoor agriculture. He deals with snow, hail and wind as the meteorological limitations to be considered. Much of what is below has been taken from the even more useful publicationby Van Heurn and Van der Post (2004). Low tunnels are further detailed in Box III.6.14 but were also already mentioned in Sect. III.6.B.(i) and dealt with in Sect. III.6.B.(ii).
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Carvajal Ortiz M (2003) Indoor agriculture. In: Holden NM, Ortiz MC (prep) Agrometeorological aspects of organic agriculture, urban agriculture, indoor agriculture, precision agriculture. CAgM Report 90, WMO/TD 1158, Geneva, pp 53–74
Van Heurn E, Van der Post K (2004) Protected cultivation. Construction, requirements and use of greenhouses in various climates. Agrodok 23, Agromisa Foundation, Wageningen,82pp
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Stigter, K. (2010). Covering Crops to Improve Growth: Some Essential Experience. In: Stigter, K. (eds) Applied Agrometeorology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74698-0_96
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