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Plant Factory Technologies

Encyclopedia of Smart Agriculture Technologies

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Plant factory is an approach to produce high-quality agricultural products with stable, year-round, mass productions in a closed or semi-closed systematized facility by controlled internal environment and specified conditions according to the production schedule. Plant factory can make maximum outputs of agricultural production in terms of high quality, safe produces, and high yield with minimum resource inputs and least environmental impacts. Since plant factory can be built near or in urban area, the energy needed for transportation of agro-products from production sites to consumers can be greatly reduced. Plant factory has the significant merits of carbon footprint and food mileage.

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The world is facing the challenges of global warming, population growth, food security, water shortage, energy insufficiency, environmental pollutions, and more. At the same time, the world agriculture also encounters the issues of population decrease in rural agricultural areas,...

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  1. National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

    Suming Chen

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  1. Biological Systems Engineering, Washington State University, Prosser, WA, USA

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  1. Precision Horticulture, Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy (ATB), Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany

    Manuela Zude-Sasse

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Chen, S. (2022). Plant Factory Technologies. In: Zhang, Q. (eds) Encyclopedia of Smart Agriculture Technologies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89123-7_144-1

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